A new Columbia University School of Nursing AI-assisted audit reveals nearly 3,000 peer-reviewed medical papers have fake ...
Mass citation fraud: An AI audit found 4,046 fake references across 2,810 biomedical papers, a 12-fold rise since 2023, often linked to AI-generated text. Peer review mills: A new AI tool flagged ...
The image above demonstrates the monthly rate of fake citations per 10,000 papers in PubMed Central, January 2023 to February 2026. The fabrication rate remained stable at approximately 4 citations ...