Apropos to my earlier post about the Springer textbook with fake citations, academic journals are seeing a rash of the same thing.
What Heiss came to realize in the course of vetting these papers was that AI-generated citations have now infested the world of professional scholarship, too. Each time he attempted to track down a bogus source in Google Scholar, he saw that dozens of other published articles had relied on findings from slight variations of the same made-up studies and journals.
Incidentally, the Heiss in this quote is my friend Prof. Andrew Heiss, one of the smartest people I know.
AI Chatbots Are Poisoning Research Archives With Fake Citations | Rolling Stone