Nature
General STEM
The math behind spotting fake academic citations is getting sharper
Imagine noticing that a restaurant's reviews all mention the same obscure dish in the same way — a statistical pattern that screams "something's off." Researchers found similar suspicious clustering in 2.5 million biomedical papers.
This means we're developing better tools to catch citation fraud before fake papers pollute the scientific record, protecting the integrity of what doctors and researchers build on.
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