The growth of AI and papermills has caused publishers countless headaches

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More than one-fifth of some IEEE conferences’ papers appear linked to authorship for sale

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Plants: A Key Emphasis to Its Pharmacological Potential (2019)

Paper mills are a growing threat to the integrity of science, yet their penetration in conference proceedings remains underexplored despite conferences being more important than journals in some scien...

Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

Retractions correct the scientific record, but they have stigma attached to them. Some in the research community want that to change.

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A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells.

AISB convention information 1-2 July 2026 AISB 2026, University of Sussex, UK Keynote Speaker: Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, University of Sussex Day of celebration...

Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to follow suit.

The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.

Many would-be whistleblowers write to us about papers with nonexistent references, possibly hallucinated by artificial intelligence. One reader recently alerted us to fake references in … an ethics…

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C’est une annonce qui est passée relativement inaperçue, mais qui mérite que l’on s’y arrête un instant. Clarivate a récemment annoncé l’intégration d’OpenAlex comme une nouvelle base de données au se...

Solal Pirelli An international computing society has begun retracting conference papers for “citation falsification” only months after the sleuth who flagged the suspect articles was convicted for …

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that “Sneaked references: Fabricated reference metadata distort citation counts,” written by Lonni Besançon, Guil...

Once upon a time, a long time ago, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched, detailing in the first post why retractions matt…