Evaluation of possibly fabricated references in 500,000 science, engineering, and computing papers
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- 10.1073/pnas.2623869123
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- 2026-10-26
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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- National Academy of Sciences
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@article{allodium:10.1073/pnas.2623869123,
title = {Evaluation of possibly fabricated references in 500,000 science, engineering, and computing papers},
author = {Maxim Topaz and Pallavi Gupta and Zhihong Zhang and Laura-Maria Peltonen},
year = {2026},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.2623869123},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2623869123}
}RIS
TY - JOUR TI - Evaluation of possibly fabricated references in 500,000 science, engineering, and computing papers AU - Maxim Topaz AU - Pallavi Gupta AU - Zhihong Zhang AU - Laura-Maria Peltonen PY - 2026 JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences DO - 10.1073/pnas.2623869123 UR - https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2623869123 ER -
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Topaz, M., Gupta, P., Zhang, Z., & Peltonen, L. (2026). Evaluation of possibly fabricated references in 500,000 science, engineering, and computing papers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2623869123
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