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

This package contains Python, shell, awk scripts, and data used to obtain the curated table associated with the above named letter. It also contains (in this file) a description of the methods employed to obtain the curated table with details regarding the published articles.ContentsThe following items are included.README.md: This fileMakefile: Orchestrate the articles’ analysisarticle-details.xlsx: Curated table with details of published articles.get-metadata.sh: Obtain article metadata pages from the journal’s web siteapply-to-pdfs.sh: Apply the specified Python script to all article PDFsextract-citations-emails.py: Extract number of probable in-text citations and corresponding author email from article PDFextract-doi-affiliations.py: Extract article DOI and affiliations from an article’s metadataextract-all-doi-affiliations.sh: Extract article DOI and affiliations from all articles’ metadataemails-to-csv.awk: Convert emails and article numbers to CSV with URL for sending emailsglobal-us/metadata/: Article metadata as HTML filesglobal-us/global-us.mellbaou.com/index.php/global/article/download/: Article PDFs as files with no suffix