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Patricia Clarke

AI is inventing academic articles – and scholars are citing them

From fake footnotes to phantom studies, AI-generated citations are slipping into real academic publishing. Scholars and publishers fear this ‘scholarly slop’ is polluting truth and science

Tue 10 Mar 2026

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