Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELSMay 4
#Researcher #authors, do you trust #GenerativeAI? Are you aware that it often creates entries for authors' #ReferenceLists that are #fake? Read this article from @retractionwatch: https://retractionwatch.com/2026/03/06/librarian-finds-preposterous-number-of-fake-references-in-paper-from-springer-nature-journal/.
Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal

Gunnar Ridderström/Pexels As a hospital librarian, Jessica Waite is typically successful at tracking down elusive articles for clinicians at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in England. So when a colleag…

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Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELSJun 3, 2025
#MedicalEditors, #MedicalWriters, and #scientists: You may want to know about a possible alternative to #PubMed as a backup when you're creating or #editing #ReferenceLists. https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/115790
Germany Plans Global Alternative to PubMed

In the wake of a brief PubMed outage, team launches project to ensure uninterrupted access

Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELSAug 10, 2023
The publish-or-perish pressure is strong for #authors in #academic disciplines, and some might use #ArtificialIntelligence to come up with #ReferenceLists for their #research papers. What do #editors do about possibly #fake references? https://tinyurl.com/p2w4au8p H/T to #Edifix. #Bookstodon
What Do Editors Do With Faked Reference Lists?

If you edit manuscripts for academic books and journal articles, you’ll likely run into fake reference lists. That’s because in the academic...

Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELSJan 10, 2023
There's something so soothing about #editing #ReferenceLists. It's probably the process of making #order out of #chaos. #AmEditing #publishing #MedicalEditors #Bookstodon