From Retraction Watch: Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2.5 million papers published as a letter to The Lancet today. The analysis of articles indexed in PubMed found that about one in 277 papers published in the first seven weeks of 2026 referenced a paper that didn’t … Continue reading Report: “One in 277 PubMed-Indexed Papers In 2026 Shows Fabricated References, Says Analysis”