Impact
August 4, 2025
Phie Jacobs published an article in Science entitled “One-fifth of computer science papers may include AI content”, in which my comments are quoted.
July 31, 2025
European Science Editing published my article "Guarding against artificial intelligence – hallucinated citations: The case for full-text reference deposit." In it, I propose a solution to the problem of AI-hallucinated bibliographic references in the academic literature, namely that journals should require authors to submit the full text of each cited work for the purposes of verification. Following the precedents set by research data sharing and American courts grappling with AI, I believe that this approach will make intentional fabrication more difficult and unintentional fabrication nigh impossible.
July 9, 2025
David Larousserie published an article in Le Monde entitled “Comment l’IA bouscule les publications scientifiques”, in which my comments are quoted.
May 14, 2025
Diana Kwon published an article in Nature entitled “Is it OK fro AI to write science papers? Nature survey researchers are split”, in which my comments are quoted.
April 24, 2025
Diana Kwon published an article in Nature entitled “Science sleuths flag hundreds of papers that use AI without disclosing it,” in which she discusses Academ-AI.
December 18, 2024
Stephanie M. Lee of The Chronicle of Higher Education published an article entitled “Scholars Are Supposed to Say When They Use AI. Do They?”, in which she discusses Academ-AI.
November 26, 2024
My analysis of the first 500 examples of suspected AI is now available as a preprint on arXiv.org. It has not yet been peer-reviewed.
October 24, 2024
Frances Jones of Research Professional News (Clarivate) published an article entitled “AI: ‘Scientific publishing is not prepared for this’,” for which she interviewed myself and other “sleuths.”
September 4, 2024
After several months and as many email exchanges, an erratum to Arsh et al. (2024) has been published.
Article published
Academ-AI contacts journal
Editor-in-Chief responds: will investigate
Update: authors confirm use of AI tools; erratum to be published
Academ-AI requests update
Journal responds: erratum being prepared for next available issue
Academ-AI requests update
Journal responds: erratum being prepared for next available issue
Erratum published
See the relevant page for details.
August 27, 2024
Academ-AI is honored to be recommended by Retraction Watch on their Papers and peer reviews with evidence of ChatGPT writing page.
May 2, 2024
An article by Bader et al., originally published on March 8, 2024, was finally removed from Radiology Case Reports after more than a month of discussion in newspapers, blogs, and social media, as well as my own correspondence with the journals’ editors:
Article published
Academ-AI (a)
Academ-AI (b)
Article removed
See the relevant page for details.
April 21, 2024
In my article “The case for universal artificial intelligence declaration on the precedent of conflict of interest,” published today, I argue that journals should require authors to declare that they have or have not used generative AI for each and every submission. I contend that authors will be less inclined to actively deceive journals concerning their use of generative AI than some have been to passively omit any declaration.
April 3, 2024
Today, my article “Suspected undeclared use of generative artificial intelligence” was published in Intelligent Pharmacy. The journal previously published an article by Verma et al., in which the telltale phrase “as of my last update” appeared. I addressed this article as well as explaining the significance of the undeclared AI problem.