37 Recent Articles about AI & Academic Scholarship

AI tools are smuggling biases in their summaries – The London School of Economics & Political Science  

Plagiarism of ideas in the age of generative artificial intelligence - Nature  

AI research papers are getting better, and it’s a big problem for scientists. – The Verge

Fraudulent citations, blamed on AI hallucinations, are becoming more common in research papers – Stat

Researchers who use hallucinated references to face arXiv ban - Nature

 Will Make the Academic Article Obsolete – Chronicle of Higher Ed

AI agents may be skilled researchers—but not always honest ones – Science.org 

Safeguards against GenAI hallucinations in literature review – Times Higher Ed 

As researchers aim for universal AI disclosure guidelines, the devil is in the details - Science.org

Retractions ‘must be the start of AI slop clean-up’, says critic – Times Higher Ed

AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It - Forbes

First AI tool to detect suspicious peer reviews rolled out by academic publisher - Nature  

Performance of AI Tools in Citing Retracted Literature – JMIR Publishing  

The AI scientist: now academic papers can be fully automated, what does this mean for the future of research? – The Conversation  

How AI is Quietly Distorting Academic Enquiry and what to do about it – Times Higher Ed

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI - Nature

Modeling scientific uncertainty in language: Applied linguistic insights from human and artificial intelligence texts – Science Direct

Researchers already use AI—it’s time to agree on how to use it responsibly – Research Professional News 

Illicit Use of AI by Philosophers Refereeing for Journals – Daily Nous 

Artificial intelligence in the retraction spotlight – Frontiers  

Detecting Fraud-Associated Characteristics In The Medical AI Literature: A Multi-Signal NLP Framework Reveals Distinct Paper Mill Subtypes - Open Science Framework

Could agentic AI topple grant-funding systems? - Nature 

Study: AI Policies Fail to Reduce Undisclosed AI Use – The Scientist

Do Large Language Models know Which Published Articles have been Retracted? – ArXiv

AI Wrote A Harvard Physicist’s Most Recent Paper. No One Knows What It Means for Science – The Crimson 

No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network - Nature  

Enacting AI disclosure in scholarly publishing – Wily 

Harvard says researcher who published nearly 100 articles in 2 1/2 years has no affiliation with the university – Free Beacon  

Institutional support for ethical AI adoption in higher education amid the rising trend of manuscript retractions - Nature 

AI Can Improve Scholarly Writing — If We Use It Right – Chronicle of Higher Ed

AI Conferences Should Embrace Submission Explosion via Autonomous Review Pipelines - Preprints 

Hallucinated citations highest in social sciences preprints site - Nature 

An AI did the astrophysics. The paper got halted. – Blankline 

Major accounting firm retracts study after researchers discover AI hallucinations - Financial Times

The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails - Nature

AI-generated research papers are overwhelming peer review – The Verge

25 research papers from one university in India retracted in 5 years amid integrity and AI concerns – India Today