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petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 18 hours ago

A review of the proceedings from four major computer-science conferences showed that none from 2021, and all from 2025, had fake citations.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05867v1

The authors prefer the term "mysterious citations" which they define this way: "No paper [with] a similar enough title exists. The cited location either does not exist or holds an unrelated paper with different authors."

#AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Misconduct #ScholComm

arXiv.org

The Case of the Mysterious Citations

Mysterious citations are routinely appearing in peer-reviewed publications throughout the scientific community. In this paper, we developed an automated pipeline and examine the proceedings of four major high-performance computing conferences, comparing the accuracy of citations between the 2021 and 2025 proceedings. While none of the 2021 papers contained mysterious citations, every 2025 proceeding did, impacting 2-6\% of published papers. In addition, we observe a sharp rise in paper title and authorship errors, motivating the need for stronger citation-verification practice. No author within our dataset acknowledged using AI to generate citations even though all four conference policies required it, indicating current policies are insufficient.
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