Since its release in November of 2022, the use of ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) has proliferated throughout ...

Scientific fraud, its authors conclude, happens on a massive scale and is growing quickly. In fact, though the number of ...

Major publishers have had to retract thousands of papers and shut down journals due to the influx of fake studies, indicating ...

If researchers use ChatGPT to help with a literature review, for instance, they can easily gather retracted articles, ...

A growing tide of fake papers is flooding the scientific record and proliferating faster than current checks can rid them from the system, scientists warn. The source of the trouble is “paper mills,” ...

A study by Northwestern University researchers found the publication of fraudulent science now outpaces the growth rate of ...

The journal Science has lifted an expression of concern on a paper claiming evidence of Majorana quasiparticles, but concerns ...

A small but growing number of academics are improperly taking credit for articles, citations, and authorships, allowing them ...

A retraction is when a published scientific paper is deemed flawed or unreliable. This means the research is no longer cited—effectively removing it from the scientific bookshelf. In Australia ...

The Friday withdrawal order involves all manuscripts written or co-written by CDC scientists. The review is aimed at removing language.

Researchers are dealing with a disturbing trend that threatens the foundation of scientific progress: scientific fraud has ...

In October 2026, the Environmental Protection Agency must release its decision on the use of America’s most widely used ...