A small group of researchers is up in arms after the scholarly repository ArXiv announced authors are responsible for ...

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

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 ...

AI exposes review mills: IOP Publishing has integrated an AI tool to detect duplicated peer-review language, uncovering ...

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.

A new study has revealed a sharp rise in AI-generated fake references in academic research, raising concerns over the growing ...

Fabricated references to research that does not exist are an increasing problem, an analysis of biomedical research papers showed. About one in 2,828 papers contained at least one fabricated reference ...

Scientists Warn AI Slop Is Wreaking Havoc in the Research World ...

International journals have retracted more than 75 papers linked to BHU researchers over five years. The case has sharpened ...

Microsoft Research warns no foolproof method detects AI-generated media reliably. C2PA provenance, watermarking, and fingerprinting each face security and reversal attack risks. Combined ...