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Jan Pisek
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University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
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Nature recently reported that the preprint server arXiv is banning papers that contain references hallucinated by artificial-intelligence tools (see Nature 653, 988–989; 2026). Scientists continue to debate whether such citations constitute research misconduct (see Nature 652, 26–29; 2026).
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Nature 658, 1356 (2026)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03407-2
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