{"id":193275,"date":"2026-03-06T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/journal-submissions-riddled-with-ai-created-fake-citations\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T04:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:10:13","slug":"journal-submissions-riddled-with-ai-created-fake-citations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/journal-submissions-riddled-with-ai-created-fake-citations\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal Submissions Riddled With AI-Created Fake Citations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/faculty-issues\/books-publishing\/2026\/03\/06\/journal-submissions-riddled-ai-created-fake\">Journal Submissions Riddled With AI-Created Fake Citations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/faculty-issues\/books-publishing\/2026\/03\/06\/journal-submissions-riddled-ai-created-fake\">https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/faculty-issues\/books-publishing\/2026\/03\/06\/journal-submissions-riddled-ai-created-fake<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-06 03:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.insidehighered.com\">www.insidehighered.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An adjunct education professor unknowingly requested a fake paper that doesn&#8217;t exist, highlighting the problem of AI-generated fake citations.<\/li>\n<li>Professors Charles Hodges and Stephanie Moore were falsely attributed with a non-existent journal article which included a convincing DOI link.<\/li>\n<li>Another professor faced a similar situation when a book proposal listed an AI-created nonexistent edited volume.<\/li>\n<li>As AI technologies expand into academia, problems like phantom citations are increasingly common, affecting both academics and journal editors.<\/li>\n<li>Journal editors are noticing a rise in AI-generated fake citations and are struggling to identify these fabricated references.<\/li>\n<li>Academic journals are considering or already employing screening methods to catch AI-generated fake citations before they lead to the publication of spurious work.<\/li>\n<li>The prevalence of fake citations endangers good academic work, highlighting ethical concerns in the misuse of AI tools in academia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journal Submissions Riddled With AI-Created Fake Citations https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/faculty-issues\/books-publishing\/2026\/03\/06\/journal-submissions-riddled-ai-created-fake Publish Date: 2026-03-06 03:03:00 Source Domain: www.insidehighered.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/large\/public\/2026-03\/AI_citation_slot_machine.jpg?itok=T1wHpF06","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193277,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193275\/revisions\/193277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}