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Journal editors and peer reviewers are being flooded with AI-generated papers that are almost impossible to detect.

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A new Columbia University School of Nursing AI-assisted audit reveals nearly 3,000 peer-reviewed medical papers have fake ...

Over 4,000 fabricated references across more than 2,800 papers identified ...

The number of fabricated citations in published research studies is a rapidly growing problem, finds a new study, and AI ...

A new Columbia University School of Nursing AI-assisted audit reveals nearly 3,000 peer-reviewed medical papers have fake ...

There has been an increase in fabricated references used in medical papers, according to a research letter published in the May 9 issue of The Lancet. Maxim Top ...

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Analysis of papers from millions of scientists shows that older researchers tend to stick with ideas from their past.

The image above demonstrates the monthly rate of fake citations per 10,000 papers in PubMed Central, January 2023 to February 2026. The fabrication rate remained stable at approximately 4 citations ...