Tamás Kriváchy
quantum information, machine learning and everything in-between
@ ICFO, Barcelona.
Previously Vienna, Geneva, Zürich
krivachy.xyz
- Citation-count-addiction is horrible, but it's one of the few points of feedback that young researchers get. I'm quite grateful for what 2025 brought, particularly more diverse feedback/verification from the community; things I didn't really expect would come my way:
- E.g.... - invitation to give a talk at a conference - invitation to be a PhD defense jury member - invitation to give a lecture at a summer school - having my research covered by my institute's website - having my (side-project) research covered by news reporters - editor's recommendation
- All in all, it's great to be more and more integrated in the community - it also helps me to be more balanced, and less focused on just some numbers. 🫶 Thanks to all colleagues, it's great to work with you all. 🎆 Happy New Year!!! 🎆
- image from Gemini Nano Banana Pro for prompt: "Create an image of the number 2026 but make it look like AI slop on purpose"
- 🚩 Our recent work on noise-robustness in a triangle quantum network got covered by ICFO. :) 👇 Have a look below or check out the full article: arxiv.org/abs/2503.24213
- 📝In a recent @physrevlett.bsky.social article, ICFO researchers have demonstrated that high-dimensional photonic states offer exceptional robustness to photon loss in the triangle network when certifying pure quantum correlations. ICFO News👉 icfo.eu/news/2586/th...
- 5️⃣/🔟 In Scientific Reports, 5 of the top 10 most cited articles have an article number of 1. 5️⃣/🔟 In Nature Communications the same: 5 of the top 10 are article 1s. Coincidence? 👇 scirate.com/arxiv/2511.0... I think not.
- Another weird thing: if we plot the citation count histograms of Nature Communications articles published on January 2nd 2025, we see the following. The one article having about 10x the citations of other articles of the same age? Article #1.
- What's going on???? Well, it turns out if you request article metadata in json format via the SprinerLink API of Springer Nature, then you get - DOI - title - authors - year - volume - page number - .... 🤯 BUT NO ARTICLE NUMBER!!! 🤯
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View full threadLuckily it's getting some press coverage retractionwatch.com/2025/11/11/b...
- A great read by Retraction Watch. ✅ Nice to see that some Article 1 authors, McCoy et al., actively tried to get help from Springer Nature to fix the incorrect citations to their paper. 😐 Seems like Scopus and Web of Science also have the distorted citations.
- What a pleasure to teach in Gdansk at the Frontiers of Machine Learning in Quantum Technologies 2025 Summer School :) It's a first for me, but really enjoying. Amazing students. I was lucky enough to see their flash presentations as well. Thx and congrats to the organizers.
- Reposted by Tamás Kriváchy📣 Calling young quantum researchers! Join us at #YQIS25 in Barcelona — a conference by young scientists, for young scientists. Present your work, connect, & help shape the future of quantum information science! Register now 👉 icfo.eu/event/4000/8... 📅 Register by August 15.
- Reposted by Tamás Kriváchy8th International Conference for Young Quantum Information Scientists www.quantiki.org/conference/8...
