AI-Fabricated Citations Infiltrating Medical Literature May Influence How Doctors Treat Patients
A first-of-its-kind audit of 2.5 million academic papers, published on May 7, 2026 in The Lancet, has identified more than 4,000 papers containing fake references that could not be traced to real publications. The audit analyzed over 97 million references across 2.5 million academic papers, marking the first academic study to examine the scale of […]