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Charlotte Högberg reposted
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“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
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- Researchers audited 111 million references across 2.5 million papers on arXiv, bioRxiv, SSRN, and PubMed Central to find non-existent citations at scale.
- They estimate 146,932 hallucinated citations in 2025 alone, concentrated in fields with rapid AI uptake and in small or early-career author teams.
- Fake citations disproportionately credit already prominent and male scholars, and existing preprint moderation catches only a fraction, the paper says.
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