GPTZero's analysis scrutinized all 4,841 papers presented at NeurIPS, identifying 100 confirmed hallucinated citations across 51 different papers. While this may seem alarming, it is crucial to ...

The “one big breakthrough” pattern suggests that total citation counts can mislead. A researcher with one highly-cited paper ...

The first quarter of the twenty-first century has produced some huge scientific breakthroughs, ranging from the first mRNA vaccines and CRISPR-based gene-editing techniques to the discovery of the ...

An analysis of NeurIPS 2025 papers by startup GPTZero reveals how AI-generated citations are slipping into elite academic ...

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 ...

It is perhaps poetic justice that AI and ML conferences too are being forced to grapple with AI-generated slop papers.