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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 ...

A new Columbia University School of Nursing AI-assisted audit reveals nearly 3,000 peer-reviewed medical papers have fake citations that do not exist in scientific databases. The results highlight an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A few weeks ago, an adjunct education professor reached out to Charles Hodges and Stephanie Moore, two frequent research collaborators, asking for a copy of their 2023 paper titled “Instructional ...

The Fulton County Sheriff's Office is warning residents about a scam message circulating that falsely claims recipients owe money for a traffic citation. In a social media alert, the sheriff's office ...

How did the construction of the Subaru Telescope transform Japanese astronomy? A new study provides a quantitative answer by analyzing scientific publications and their citation impact during the ...

A collage evokes a cartel of people working to proliferate citations in academic papers. Three people sit in shadow, a dictionary entry for “citation” is circled ...

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