Cyril Labbé

Cyril Labbé holds a PhD in computer science (1999) and is a professor at the University of Grenoble-Alpes, where he heads the SIGMA (information systems) research team at the Grenoble Computer Science Laboratory (LIG). He is co-leader of the ERC Synergy Nano Bubbles project, which focuses on identifying obstacles to the self-correction process in science. His work on text mining and the automatic detection of fake scientific articles has led to the retraction of numerous computer science and biomedical publications. He created the “scigen detection” and “seek&blastn” software programs, contributed to the “Problematic Paper Screener” website, and created Ike Antkare, a fictional scientist who, according to Google Scholar, once had an extraordinary h-index.