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Hallucinated citations are polluting scientific literature. What can be done?
- Kaibeezy 6mo agohttps://archive.ph/HsJbl https://archive.ph/HsJbl
- al_borland 6mo ago> Johnston says she is taking a hard line: when such a citation is found in a submission to RIPE, she says, the authors are prohibited from resubmitting the work to the journal. This is the way to go. The other journals are being too nice. A middle ground might be to ban them for 5 years. If they do it again after the ban, then they get a lifetime ban. Put the burden on the researcher. If they are unwilling to take on this task, what other corners did they cut?