Topic · Safety Research · Social Sciences

Academic integrity and plagiarism

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3 papers

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

Fraudulent studies are undermining the reliability of systematic reviews - a study of the prevalence of problematic images in preclinical studies of depression

Jenny P. Berrío, Otto Kalliokoski

The paper examines the prevalence of fraudulent studies in a systematic review of depression research, finding that 19% of studies had problematic images, which biased review results and were not easily identifiable.

FEBS Letters · May 21, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Framework for assessing the risk to a field from fraudulent research

Chaoqun Ni, B. Ian Hutchins

Citation-network analysis of 112,720 Alzheimer's disease papers finds that no single author or paper reaches most of the field; the top 150 authors average 7.8% literature reach.

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology · Apr 25, 2025Peer-reviewedScientific Communication & Education✦ In-depth digest