Listing fake authors and misusing waivers solves those problems, Abalkina explains. And if papers are retracted, that doesn’t ...

We admire scientists as the stewards of truth, exploring the unknown with curiosity, discipline, and integrity. However, when the pursuit of knowledge becomes a competitive sport for reward, a more ...

House Republicans warn Chinese "paper mills" may be flooding U.S. science with fake research, potentially compromising ...

The number of scientific papers flagged as fraudulent has been growing. Now a new paper sheds light on how it’s being done. Researchers found loose networks of unscrupulous editors working with ...

A biotechnology journal that was inundated with paper-mill submissions in 2021 — and claimed in 2023 that it had tackled the problem — still harbours hundreds of dubious papers, an analysis by ...

The rise of "fake" science poses a serious threat to the integrity of academic research, a new study warns. A widespread underground network of fraudsters is pumping out fake scientific results at an ...

Even top AI and machine learning conferences, including NeurIPS, are grappling with the menace of fake, AI-hallucinated citations that risk diluting scientific discourse.