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A recent study of 2.5M scientific papers found ~146,900 fake citations

A recent study of 2.5M scientific papers found ~146,900 fake citations, presumably hallucinated by AI. The fake citations “were not limited to a handful of bad apples but appeared across many papers, each containing a small number of fake references.”

AI-generated fake citations are flooding scientific literature across publications, scientists warn · phys.org
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. …
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Posted on: June 5, 2026, 6:07 am Category: Uncategorized

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