"Your doctor could be making decisions around treatment based on studies that never existed," one expert said.

The citations at the end of a research paper should represent a solid foundation of existing knowledge about a particular field, a pool of peer-reviewed sources built over years of research and study.

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 ...

BENGALURU: A surge of AI-generated fake citations has entered scientific literature, with a new study estimating that about 1 ...

Researchers warn that fake AI-generated citations spread across scientific papers in 2025, raising concerns about academic integrity and AI training data.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A small portion of scientific papers are retracted for research that is in error or fraudulent. But those papers can continue to be cited by other ...

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 ...

My new research suggests there is a stubborn pattern in academic publishing. My co-author and I examined some 8,000 articles published in the world’s most reputable economics journals to study ...