Jennifer Anne Byrne

Verification of human nucleotide sequence reagents and cell line identities in original circRNA articles published in high impact factor journals

This study verifies nucleotide sequence reagents and cell line identities in circRNA papers and finds frequent errors in high-impact journals.

Suspected distortion of citations in high-impact cancer journals

Molecular oncology papers that textually resemble retracted paper mill papers receive 50 to 100% more citations yet fewer readers, cite one another, and measurably inflate some journals' citation rates.

Revealing the Paper Mill Iceberg: AI-Based Screening of Cancer Research Publications.

A BERT classifier on titles and abstracts flagged 9.87% of 2.6 million cancer papers (1999 to 2024) as resembling retracted paper mill papers, with yearly shares rising past 15%.

Misspellings or miscellings- non-verifiable cell lines in cancer research publications

The paper identifies non-verifiable human cell lines in cancer research publications, finding 235 papers referring to 7 cell lines as independent entities despite lacking proper documentation.

Human gene function publications that describe wrongly identified nucleotide sequence reagents are unacceptably frequent within the genetics literature

The paper screens gene function literature for nucleotide sequence errors, finding 712 papers with at least one wrongly identified sequence, which may misinform future therapies.