Generative AI aids the publication of fake articles: Methods and materials package

This package contains Python, shell, awk scripts, and data used to obtain the curated table associated with the above named article. It also contains (in this file) a description of the methods employed to obtain the curated table with details regarding the published articles. Contents The following items are included. README.md: This file article-details.xlsx: Curated table with details of published articles in Microsoft Excel file format index.html: HTML document with links to GIJIR materials saved in the Internet Archive a list of all the GIJIR articles’ citation data according to Crossref and links to each article’s locally available landing page, full-text PDF, plus links to Crossref metadata and the article via DOI and original journal URL. (Note that non-local, non-archived links may rot over time.) Makefile: Commands that orchestrate the articles’ analysis get-metadata.sh: Obtain article metadata pages from the journal’s web site apply-to-pdfs.sh: Apply the specified Python script to all article PDFs extract-citations-emails.py: Extract number of probable in-text citations and corresponding author email from article PDF extract-doi-affiliations.py: Extract article DOI and affiliations from an article’s metadata extract-all-doi-affiliations.sh: Extract article DOI and affiliations from all articles’ metadata emails-to-csv.awk: Convert emails and article numbers to CSV with URL for sending emails ybs-works.json: Results of Crossref query to obtain all the publisher’s works made on 2024-09-22 ChatGPT: Prompts and responses associated with the generation of a fake article in one of the journal’s topics. global-us/metadata/: Article metadata as HTML files collected on 2024-09-10 global-us/global-us.mellbaou.com/index.php/global/article/download/: A copy of the journal’s article PDFs as crawled on 2024-09-10