Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Citations in academic papers are intended to ground research in the ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. A new study finds an alarming increase in the number of fabricated citations in published ...

Authors of scientific papers are usually encouraged to cite works that meaningfully influenced their research (substantive citations) and avoid citing works that had no meaningful influence ...

Fabricated references to research that does not exist are an increasing problem, an analysis of biomedical research papers showed. About one in 2,828 papers contained at least one fabricated reference ...

What was found: Researchers identified over 4,000 fake citations across 2,810 biomedical papers in an audit of millions of publications. Why it matters: False references can mislead clinicians and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rhea Wessel is the founder of The Institute for Thought Leadership. Sep 28, 2025, 12:12pm EDT Have you fallen down the rabbit hole ...

When Maxim Topaz, an AI researcher at Columbia University, submitted a paper to a journal, the editorial staff emailed him back asking him about one of the references in his article. Topaz realized ...

An interconnected global network of computer scientists aggressively boosted each other’s metrics through citation manipulation and compromised peer review.

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrates their potential to encapsulate the logic and patterns inherent in human behavior simulation by leveraging extensive web data pre-training.

Rising citation fraud: Researchers found 4,046 fabricated references in 2,810 biomedical papers, with rates surging since mid-2024 alongside AI tool adoption. Clinical risks: Fake citations have ...