An analysis of 97 million citations has found that rates of fabricated citations have climbed steeply since 2023. An audit of 2.5 million academic papers has identified nearly 3,000 biomedical-science papers that contain fake references — ones that could not be traced to known publications. The findings, published in The Lancet on 7 May1, are contained in the fi... [2969 chars]
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