Guillaume Cabanac

Guillaume Cabanac is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toulouse, France. He holds a research chair at the Institut Universitaire de France titled “Decontamination of the scientific literature.” Cabanac develops the Problematic Paper Screener that contributes to the identification, reporting, and retraction of algorithmically generated and fraudulent papers.
He is an investigator on the ERC Synergy grant NanoBubbles that questions how, when, and why science fails to correct itself. Cabanac’s research was profiled in the Nature’s 10: he was nicknamed ‘Deception sleuth’ in the journal’s annual list of ‘ten people who helped shape science in 2021.