To conduct their analysis, the research team developed an automated verification system using AI that scanned 2.5 million ...

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

An analysis of 97 million citations has found that rates of fabricated citations have climbed steeply since 2023.

Retraction data points to better identification of scientific misconduct and the negative impact of the publish-or-perish ...

Fabricated” citations that do not reference real academic papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record ...

The AI Scientist scans existing literature, generates hypotheses, writes and executes code, analyses results and produces a ...

Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) is planning to unveil a new digital certificate verification system.

Ben Williamson of the University of Edinburgh has been tracking the phenomenon because of a very personal experience with Frankencitations. I asked him some questions about what’s going on and what he ...

Cellphone bans in schools have become a popular policy in recent years in the United States, yet very little is known about their effects on student outcomes. In this study, we try to fill this gap by ...