Revealing the Paper Mill Iceberg: AI-Based Screening of Cancer Research Publications.
Baptiste Scancar, Jennifer Anne Byrne, David Causeur, Adrian Gerard Barnett
A BERT classifier on titles and abstracts flagged 9.87% of 2.6 million cancer papers (1999 to 2024) as resembling retracted paper mill papers, with yearly shares rising past 15%.
BMJ · Jan 29, 2026Peer-reviewedCancer Biology✦ In-depth digest