Medical research plays a vital role in advancing healthcare, improving treatment, and informing public health policies. However, it can be difficult to understand a study or whether it is trustworthy.

An analysis of NeurIPS 2025 papers by startup GPTZero reveals how AI-generated citations are slipping into elite academic ...

The “one big breakthrough” pattern suggests that total citation counts can mislead. A researcher with one highly-cited paper and several uncited ones may have a more impactful trajectory than one with ...

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The scientific community in the English-speaking world publishes its research findings using technical and scientific English (naturally!). It has its own particular vocabulary. Many words are ...

When a group of researchers at Northwestern University uncovered evidence of widespread—and growing—research fraud in scientific publishing, editors at some academic journals weren’t exactly rushing ...

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

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