Retraction Watch on Mythryl: “Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased…”

Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2.5 million papers published as a letter to The Lancet today.

retractionwatch.comOne in 277 PubMed-indexed papers in 2026 shows fabricated references, says analysisFigure from correspondence to The Lancet by Maxim Topaz and colleagues. Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2.5 mi…

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