Citation Pollution/Contamination
- Bibliometrics Methods in Detecting Citations to Questionable Journals (2023).
- Citation Contamination: Citations to Predatory Journals in the Mainstream Scientific Literature (2019) (R.Anderson, Univ. of Utah).
- Citation Contamination: References to Predatory Journals in the Legitimate Scientific Literature (2019)
- Citation Contamination by Paper Mill Articles in Systematic Reviews of the Life Sciences (2025)
- Citations Are the Currency of Science – Then there are the counterfeiters. (2020)
- Don’t be surprised by AI chatbots creating fake citations (2023)
- Citations to questionable journals threaten research integrity: bibliometrics as a key actor in the detection (2023)
- 15 Kinds of Bogus Citations (2024)
- Fifty years of research on questionable research practises in science: quantitative analysis of co-citation patterns (2023)
- Fighting Citation Pollution — The Challenge of Detecting Fraudulent Journals in Works Cited (2019)
- How Junk Citations Have Discredited the Academy: Part 1
- How Junk Citations Have Discredited the Academy: Part 2
- How Junk Citations Have Discredited the Academy: Part 3
- How Junk Citations Have Discredited the Academy: Part 4
- How Junk Citations Have Discredited the Academy: Part; 5
- Poisoning the Well: Citation Contamination of Systematic Review Literature in the Life Sciences by Paper Mills (2025)
- Professor says ‘junk citations’ have created ‘distrust’ in academic research (2023)
- Publishing ethics committee warns of ‘problematic pollution’ of the scholarly record (2024)
- Questionable papers in citation databases as an issue for literature review (2017)
- Retracted Covid-19 papers and the levels of ‘citation pollution’: A preliminary analysis and directions for further research (2020)
- The right to refuse unwanted citations: rethinking the culture of science around the citation (2021)
- Top tips on identifying citation misconduct (2024)
AI Pollution of Research
- AI fake citations – How can researchers guard against them? (2026)
- Artificial Hallucinations in ChatGPT: Implications in Scientific Writing (2023)
- Artificial Intelligence and the Research Paper: a Librarian’s perspective (2023)
- Can Researchers Stop AI From Making up Citations? (2025)
- ChatGPT and Fake Citations (2023)
- Fabricated citations: an audit across 2·5 million biomedical papers (2026)
- Fabricated citations in the age of AI: A wake-up call for editors, reviewers, and authors (2025)
- Fake Citations Are Everywhere — Here’s How to Spot Them (2026)
- False authorship: an explorative case study around an AI-generated article published under my name (Diomidis Spinellis) (2025)
- Fraudulent citations, blamed on AI hallucinations, are becoming more common in research papers (2026)
- From Integrity to Inflation: Ethical and Unethical Citation Practices in Academic Publishing (2025)
- Generative AI and misinformation: a scoping review of the role of generative AI in the generation, detection, mitigation, and impact of misinformation (2025)
- Guarding against artificial intelligence–hallucinated citations (2025)
- Hallucination (artificial intelligence) (Wikipedia)
- “Looks Cited” Doesn’t Mean “is Cited.” Why 1 in 5 AI References Fail. (2026)
- South Africa Pulls Ai Policy After Hallucinated Citations Expose Drafting Scandal (2026)
- Study finds nearly two-thirds of AI-generated citations are fabricated or contain errors (2025)
- Surge in fake citations uncovered by audit of 2.5 million biomedical science papers (2026)
- Teplitskiy: AI-generated “slop” is polluting scientific citations (2026)
- The citation catastrophe: Propagation of AI-generated counterfeit citations in scholarship (2025)
- The Citation Trap: How AI Is Quietly Failing Students Around the World (2025)
- The Fabrication Problem: How AI Models Generate Fake Citations, URLs, and References (2025)
- The Illusion of Evidence: Why Fake AI Citations Demand Caution in Nursing (2026)
- Understanding Citation Ethics: Why You Should Never Rely Solely on AI for Literature Discovery (2026)
- What is AI Pollution?
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