Scientists who get too many references to their own work inserted in others’ papers — whether by prior arrangement or by asking for extra references during peer review — might leave telltale ...

Referencing is a prominent thing in academic writing. It is used to provide sources to other authors’ work you have referred to in your studies. In this article, I am going to share a tutorial on how ...

College papers need more than good ideas and grammar. The use of proper citations is also a very important consideration but in most cases, it is ignored by students. Even a minor inaccuracy in a ...

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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 ...

A report on children’s health released by the Make America Healthy Again Commission referred to scientific papers that did not exist. By Dani Blum and Maggie Astor The Trump administration released a ...

GPTZero found “obvious” instances of false, LLM-generated references in academic papers. GPTZero, the startup behind an artificial intelligence (AI) detector that checks for large language model (LLM) ...