Tag: fabricated references; research integrity; reference checking; AI-assisted paper review

A peer-reviewed PNAS study found references that could not be located in about 1 in 435 physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering and computing papers from early 2026, up from 1 in 1,600 in 2023. That puts citation reliability in question. The study measures how common the problem is and how fast it is growing; it…