Learning how to conduct accurate, discipline-specific academic research can feel daunting at first. But, with a solid understanding of the reasoning behind why we use academic citations coupled with ...

Academic writing is being transformed by AI tools that assist with brainstorming, literature review, citation management, and editing, while raising new ethical and accuracy concerns. Updated APA ...

Ben Williamson of the University of Edinburgh has been tracking the phenomenon because of a very personal experience with Frankencitations. I asked him some questions about what’s going on and what he ...

While researching the “Paul Revere of the West,” a somewhat shady Frenchman named Cardinal, I came across a comment in a local historical volume printed in anticipation of the 1976 Bicentennial. The ...

There was an “aha!” moment in my class this week that reminded me just how important it is to talk with students about the human conversation represented by academic citation. There was an “aha!” ...

Fabricated” citations that do not reference real academic papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record ...

A new analysis of research citations by University of Maryland professor of computer science Ben Shneiderman indicates that the average number of citations a university research paper receives is ...

Sharp rise detected: Fabricated citations in biomedical papers jumped from 4.0 per 10,000 in 2023 to 56.9 in early 2026. AI tools implicated: Researchers link the surge to large language models that ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Citations have long been the default measure of academic influence, offering a seemingly simple way to track a ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A study that explores the impact of citation practices in engineering education research on scholars of color earned the Best Overall Diversity Paper Award from the American Society of ...