Springer Nature Book on Machine Learning Criticized for Fake Citations
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Summary
The Springer Nature book 'Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Advanced' is under scrutiny for containing numerous made-up citations, with two-thirds of the checked citations found to be non-existent or containing substantial errors. Three researchers cited in the book confirmed the inaccuracies in the works attributed to them.
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· 4 pulledWould you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up?
Two-thirds of the citations in the book either did not exist or had substantial errors.
We wrote this paper and it was not formally published, so it is not a real paper.
The book is full of fake citations, and it's a shame because it could have been a good resource.
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