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 ...

Listing fake authors and misusing waivers solves those problems, Abalkina explains. And if papers are retracted, that doesn’t ...

Keeping up with the latest research is vital for scientists, but given that millions of scientific papers are published every ...

Some AI-assisted research papers are citing studies that do not exist, revealing how reference errors can slip through peer review.

100 vibe citations spotted in 51 NeurIPS papers show vetting efforts have room for improvement GPTZero, a detector of AI output, has found yet again that scientists are undermining their credibility ...

NeurIPS, one of the world’s most prestigious AI research conferences, held its 39th annual meeting in San Diego in December, drawing tens of thousands of submissions and participants. What was once a ...

Two big scholarly publishers of open-access research—meaning free to read outside a paywall—have been accused of excessively citing papers previously published in their own journals. A study published ...