Learning how to conduct accurate, discipline-specific academic research can feel daunting at first. But, with a solid understanding of the reasoning behind why we use academic citations coupled with ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Citations in academic papers are intended to ground research in the ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. A new study finds an alarming increase in the number of fabricated citations in published ...

A trio of researchers from Queens College, City University of New York, the University of California, Los Angeles, and Stanford University has found that a citation bias exists in research papers and ...

Fabricated references to research that does not exist are an increasing problem, an analysis of biomedical research papers showed. About one in 2,828 papers contained at least one fabricated reference ...

Researchers who are coerced by editors into adding superfluous citations in their manuscripts are more likely to succeed in publishing papers than are those who resist, finds a study published in ...

Fabricated citations are an increasing problem coinciding with the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in writing and editing, an analysis of biomedical research papers showed. Out of ...