Research from startup GPTZero points to the impossible problem prestigious conferences face in the age of AI slop.

Some AI-assisted research papers are citing studies that do not exist, revealing how reference errors can slip through peer review.

College papers need more than good ideas and grammar. The use of proper citations is also a very important consideration but in most cases, it is ignored by students. Even a minor inaccuracy in a ...

Researchers propose a new citation index that balances productivity and impact in academic publishing. The h-index of ...

Thousands of scientific papers are retracted every year because of fraudulent activity, with both authors and journals gaming a system to gain academic acclaim through deceit, dishonesty and false ...

An automated tool is targeting an issue that has plagued science for decades: retracted studies cited in newly published papers without acknowledgement that they have been pulled from the literature.