AI · Industry · 2026-09-09 08:28:00
A Springer Nature press release claims they have an internal AI tool to check citation relevance, but articles published in August and September 2026 still contain hallucinated citations identified by VerusCite and confirmed by human checks. The hall of hallucinations spans major publishers like Taylor & Francis, Sage, Oxford, Elsevier, MDPI, and PLOS One, plus preprint servers. The author argues publishers do the minimum and should do more to verify integrity.
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