Reference fabrication has increased among published medical research papers, with the rate of fabrication growing from 2025 to 2026.

Over 4,000 fabricated references across more than 2,800 papers identified ...

Researchers say fabricated references in biomedical journals are rising sharply, raising concerns over research quality and ...

To conduct their analysis, the research team developed an automated verification system using AI that scanned 2.5 million ...

A researcher working alone – apart from the world and the rest of the wider scientific community – is a classic yet misguided image. Research is, in reality, built on continuous exchange within the ...