PulseAugur
EN
LIVE 18:25:28

Biomedical research papers show 14-fold increase in fake citations over three years

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] ·

An audit of 2.5 million biomedical research papers revealed that approximately 2,800 contained fabricated citations. This represents a significant increase, with a 14-fold rise in such instances over the past three years. The findings highlight a growing problem of fraudulent practices within scientific publishing. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential issues with AI-generated content in scientific research and the need for robust verification methods.

RANK_REASON The cluster reports on an audit of scientific papers and findings of fake citations, which falls under research.

Read on Mastodon — mastodon.social →

AI-generated summary · Google Gemini · from 1 sources. How we write summaries →

Biomedical research papers show 14-fold increase in fake citations over three years

How we ranked this

Signal score
0 / 100
Composite score across the factors below. Higher = stronger signal that this story matters right now.
Newsworthiness bucket
Research
The cluster reports on an audit of scientific papers and findings of fake citations, which falls under research.
Source corroboration
Single-source cluster
Only one publisher covered this so far. Single-source stories can still rank when the publisher is high-authority, but they lack cross-source corroboration.
Topics
paper, other
Editorial topic classification. Feeds into how the story surfaces on /topic/<slug> hub pages and into the per-entity coverage mix.
AI-industry relevance
Standard
On-topic for AI-industry coverage; kept in the public index.
Story freshness
140 days old
Aged out of breaking-news scoring windows; ranking reflects the durable signal from the full source set.

Full methodology in our editorial standards.

COVERAGE [1]

  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    An audit of 2.5 million biomedical research papers found that 2,800 of them contained fake citations. There is a 14-fold increase in the last three years. Summa

    An audit of 2.5 million biomedical research papers found that 2,800 of them contained fake citations. There is a 14-fold increase in the last three years. Summary: https:// phys.org/news/2026-05-peer-med ical-papers-fake-citations.html Original paper: https://www. thelancet.com/j…

RELATED ENTITIES

RELATED TOPICS