Fake scientific studies are no longer a fringe nuisance. They are being produced and sold at such scale that, according to ...

Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale and dissemination of bogus scholarly research. These paper mills are profiting by ...

Research papers suspected of using AI are showing up in Google Scholar, according to a study. Many discuss controversial topics that are susceptible to disinformation. Researchers said removing the ...

New research reveals organized networks linking paper mills, intermediaries, and compromised academic journals ...

These papers are absorbed into the worldwide library of research faster than they can be weeded out. About 119,000 scholarly journal articles and conference papers are published globally every week, ...

Faking it until you make it may be a common practice in some careers. But it’s clearly unethical for scientists and medical researchers. All the same, thousands of fake papers are churned out by ...

At 11.47 pm, a scientist in California compares two cancer research papers. They come from different labs and claim to study different things, but one image in each is identical. She checks it against ...

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