A Swedish researcher invented a skin disease, gave it a clinical-sounding name, and uploaded fake papers about it to preprint servers. AI chatbots were soon confidently explaining “bixonimania” to ...

The number of scientific papers flagged as fraudulent has been growing. Now a new paper sheds light on how it’s being done. Researchers found loose networks of unscrupulous editors working with ...

Bixonimania is a common condition that you’re probably suffering from if you have sore, red eyes and you’ve been overexposed to blue light from screens. But here’s a fun fact—bixonimania is not real.

Multiple citations in the "Make America Healthy Again" report contained titles of nonexistent papers, or mischaracterized real ones. Experts say those are hallmarks of artificial intelligence ...

As the fall semester came to a close, Andrew Heiss, an assistant professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, ...

Beatriz Ychussie’s career in mathematics seemed to be going really well. She worked at Roskilde University in Denmark where, in 2015 and 2016 alone, she published four papers on mathematical formulae ...

Reporting from the organization, Retraction Watch, has found that the world of research is being flooded with fake research papers. These undermine legitimate research, can impact funding and can ...