The citations at the end of a research paper should represent a solid foundation of existing knowledge about a particular ...

An AI-led analysis of publicly available peer-review reports links requests for major revisions with papers that end up ...

A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half. By Carl Zimmer For years, whistle-blowers have warned that ...

A surge in AI-generated hallucinated citations has infiltrated scientific literature, with over 146,000 fabricated references ...

The number of fabricated citations in published research studies is a rapidly growing problem, finds a new study, and AI "hallucinations" may be the major culprit.

“CERTAINLY, HERE is a possible introduction for your topic...” began a recent article in Surfaces and Interfaces, a scientific journal. Attentive readers might have wondered who exactly that bizarre ...

Millions of scientific papers are published globally every year. These papers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine present discoveries that range from the mundane to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Assistant professor Frank Cackowski, left, and researcher Steven Zielske at Wayne State University in Detroit became suspicious of ...

George R.R. Martin recently made the news because he co-wrote a scientific paper. While it’s rare for someone from the arts to get their name on a research paper, it’s not unheard of. Several familiar ...