Impact
Publications and preprints
Glynn A. Academ-AI: documenting the undisclosed use of generative artificial intelligence in academic publishing. arXiv; 2024. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2411.15218
Glynn A. Guarding against artificial intelligence -- hallucinated citations: the case for full-text reference deposit. European Science Editing. 2025 Jul 31;51:e153973. doi: 10.3897/ese.2025.e153973.
Glynn A. Suspected undeclared use of artificial intelligence in the academic literature: an analysis of the academ-ai dataset. arXiv; 2024. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2411.15218
Glynn A. The case for universal artificial intelligence declaration on the precedent of conflict of interest. Accountability in Research. 2024 Apr 21:1–2. doi: 10.1080/08989621.2024.2345719.
Glynn A. Suspected undeclared use of generative artificial intelligence. Intelligent Pharmacy. 2024 Oct;2(5):596–597. doi: 10.1016/j.ipha.2024.03.003.
Press coverage
Jacobs P. One-fifth of computer science papers may include AI content. Science. 2025 Aug 4. doi: 10.1126/science.zxxd90o.
Kwon D. Is it OK for AI to write science papers? Nature survey shows researchers are split. Nature. 2025 May 15;641(8063):574–578. doi: 10.1038/d41586-025-01463-8.
Kwon D. Science sleuths flag hundreds of papers that use AI without disclosing it. Nature. 2025 Apr 24;641(8062):290–291. doi: 10.1038/d41586-025-01180-2.
Research citing Academ-AI
Journal articles
Fiorillo L. Confabulated references in the age of AI: contamination of the biomedical scientific literature. Exploration of Medicine. 2026 Mar 4;7:1001385. doi: 10.37349/emed.2026.1001385.
Zhu J, Molnar A. Blissful (A)Ignorance: Despite the widespread adoption of AI in communication, people do not suspect AI use in realistic contexts. Computers in Human Behavior. 2026 Feb 16:108929. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2026.108929.
Pflanzer M, Dubljević V. On Undisclosed or Improper Use of Generative AI and Sanctions. AJOB Neuroscience. 2026 Jan 2;17(1):1–4. doi: 10.1080/21507740.2025.2606302.
Galjak M, Budić M. Generational Divide in AI Adoption for Academic Writing: Evidence From Serbian Social Scientists. Social Science Computer Review. 2025 Dec 30:08944393251413796. doi: 10.1177/08944393251413796.
MacArthur M. Large language models and the problem of rhetorical debt. AI & SOCIETY. 2025 Dec 1;40(8):6425–6438. doi: 10.1007/s00146-025-02403-w.
Tang B. The Epistemic Downside of Using LLM-Based Generative AI in Academic Writing. Publications. 2025 Dec 1;13(4):63. doi: 10.3390/publications13040063.
Teixeira da Silva J, Wang J. Sense and sensibility of article submission platforms are needed regarding verification of AI use: a stakeholders’ perspective. AI and Ethics. 2025 Dec 1;5(6):6127–6137. doi: 10.1007/s43681-025-00823-4.
Thompson J, Manalastas E, Hombali A, Scott D. OP9 Gatekeepers of Science: Evolving Publishing Policies in the Age of AI. Value in Health. 2025 Dec 1;28(12):S544. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2025.09.2456.
García-Peñalvo F. Tres escenarios para la IA en educación: del apoyo responsable a la cocreación [Three scenarios for AI in education: from responsible support to co-creation]. Education in the Knowledge Society. 2025 Nov 13;26:e32932. doi: 10.14201/eks.32932.
Singh B. Epistemic Destabilization: AI-Driven Knowledge Generation and the Collapse of Validation Systems. Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. 2025 Oct 15;8(3):2387–2398. doi: 10.1609/aies.v8i3.36724.
Masters K. Artificial intelligence and the death of the academic author. Medical Teacher. 2025 Oct 3;47(10):1563–1565. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2025.2523463.
Agricola I, Heller L, Schilders W, Schubotz M, Taylor P, Vega L. Fraudulent Publishing in the Mathematical Sciences. Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 2025 Oct;72(09). doi: 10.1090/noti3217.
Wei C, Peng L, Zhu Q. Which Source is More Morally Negative? The Effect of Plagiarism From AI Versus Human on Consumer Immoral Judgments. Psychology & Marketing. 2025 Oct;42(10):2685–2697. doi: 10.1002/mar.70007.
Tang B. Undeclared AI-Assisted Academic Writing as a Form of Research Misconduct. Science Editor. 2025 Sep 8;48. doi: 10.36591/SE-4804-02.
Obieke C, Milisavljevic-Syed J, Jiang P, Bridgeman J, Han J. Trailblazing specific generative models (SGMs) for early-stage engineering design concepts. Design and Artificial Intelligence. 2025 Sep 1;1(3):100030. doi: 10.1016/j.daai.2025.100030.
Yao M, Wei Y, Liu H. AI practices and ethical concerns: an analysis of undeclared uses of AI in published research articles. Ethics & Behavior. 2025 Aug 28;0(0):1–13. doi: 10.1080/10508422.2025.2549310.
Winter J, Hancock P, Eisma Y. ChatGPT and academic work: new psychological phenomena. AI & SOCIETY. 2025 Aug 1;40(6):4855–4868. doi: 10.1007/s00146-025-02241-w.
Watson J. Artificial Intelligence in Scholarly Publishing: New Tools, Same Standards. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing. 2025 Aug;29(4):268–269. doi: 10.1188/25.CJON.268-269.
Kaczmarek S, Sweet D, Lester M. The Editors’ Page. Journal of Sedimentary Research. 2025 Jun 30;95(3):543–543. doi: 10.2110/jsr.2025.058.
Bollaert L. Artificial Intelligence: Objective or Tool in the 21st-Century Higher Education Strategy and Leadership?. Education Sciences. 2025 Jun 18;15(6):774. doi: 10.3390/educsci15060774.
Barbaro A. Publications and new products. Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries. 2025 Mar 27;21(1):20–23. doi: 10.32384/jeahil21669.
Spector-Bagdady K. The Need for Prospective Integrity Standards for the Use of Generative AI in Research. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 2025 Mar;53(1):74–79. doi: 10.1017/jme.2025.41.
Strzelecki A. ‘As of my last knowledge update’: How is content generated by ChatGPT infiltrating scientific papers published in premier journals?. Learned Publishing. 2025 Jan;38(1):e1650. doi: 10.1002/leap.1650.
Haider J, Söderström K, Ekström B, Rödl M. GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. 2024 Sep 3;5(5). doi: 10.37016/mr-2020-156.
Reports
Baytas C, Ruediger D. Making AI Generative for Higher Education: Adoption and Challenges Among Instructors and Researchers. New York: Ithaka S+R; 2025 May 1. doi: 10.18665/sr.322677
Guidelines
Books
González Pérez F, Suárez I, Rivera M. Citación académica e inteligencia artificial generativa: Desafíos docentes en la tutoría universitaria [Academic citation and generative artificial intelligence: Teaching challenges in university tutoring]. In: Aulas Inteligentes: Experiencias y propuestas educativas con IA y herramientas digitales [Smart Classrooms: Educational experiences and proposals with AI and digital tools]. Barquisimeto, Venezuela: Fondo Editorial Holos XXI; 2025 Dec 15. p. 145–163. doi: 10.64639/efm5fw16.
Şahi̇n M. Yapay zekâ i̇le üreti̇len akademi̇k çalişmalarin bi̇li̇msel ni̇teli̇ği̇: özgünlük, güveni̇rli̇k ve epi̇stemi̇k erozyon [The scientific quality of AI-generated academic work: originality, reliability, and epistemological erosion]. In: Modernite, Dijitalleşme ve Bilgi Krizi: Güncel Eleştirel Yaklaşımlar [Modernity, Digitalization, and the Information Crisis: Contemporary Critical Approaches]. Ankara, Turkiye: Bidge Yayınları; 2025 Dec. p. 117–154. doi: 10.70269/10.70269/8223278598.
Roe J. How to Use Generative AI in Educational Research. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press; 2025 Nov 30. doi: 10.1017/9781009675338.
Theses
Conference papers
Bevendorff J, Wiegmann M, Richter E, Potthast M, Stein B. The Two Paradigms of LLM Detection: Authorship Attribution vs. Authorship Verification. In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025. Vienna, Austria: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2025 Jul. p. 3762–3787. doi: 10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.194.
Oppenlaender J, Malacria S, Fang X, Berkel N, Chevalier F, Yatani K, Hosio S. Meta-HCI: First Workshop on Meta-Research in HCI. In: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: Association for Computing Machinery; 2025 Apr 25. p. 1–8. doi: 10.1145/3706599.3706723.
Oppenlaender J, Hosio S. Keeping Score: A Quantitative Analysis of How the CHI Community Appreciates Its Milestones. In: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: Association for Computing Machinery; 2025 Apr 25. p. 1–17. doi: 10.1145/3706598.3713464.
Presentations
García-Peñalvo FJ. Escritura científica. Buenas prácticas para publicar en revistas [Scientific writing. Best practices for publishing in journals] [Training Course]. Training Course presented at: Programa de Formación del Profesorado de la Universitat de les Illes Balears para el curso 2025-2026. 2025 Nov 13; Balearic Islands, Spain.
Preprints
Ans M, Maggio L, Algodi H, Costello J, Driessen E, Oswald K, et al. The Presence and Nature of AI-Use Disclosure Statements in Medical Education Journals: A bibliometric study. medRxiv; 2025. p. 2025.11.11.25340015. doi: 10.1101/2025.11.11.25340015.
Berger M, Hessler S, Busse JS, Doru B, Heimgartner SAC, Herzog J, et al. DEDICAITE - DEtecting AI-generated TExts in a DIdactic Context. Research Square; 2025. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7682039/v2.
Kulal A. Development and Validation of the AI Disclosure Reluctance Scale (ADRS): A Multidimensional Measure for Academic Researchers [SSRN Scholarly Paper]. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network; 2025. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.5878882.
Lin J, Shan R, Zhu J, Xi Y, Yu Y, Zhang W. Stop DDoS Attacking the Research Community with AI-Generated Survey Papers. arXiv; 2025. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2510.09686.
Online discussion
Blogs
Podcasts
Corrections/retractions
IOP Publishing, in a formal retraction, credited this project for identifying likely AI generated text.
After several months and as many email exchanges, an erratum to Arsh et al. (2024) was published.
Article published
January 3
Academ-AI contacts journal
March 19
Editor-in-Chief responds: will investigate
March 20
Update: authors confirm use of AI tools; erratum to be published
March 21
Academ-AI requests update
Journal responds: erratum being prepared for next available issue
April 30
Academ-AI requests update
Journal responds: erratum being prepared for next available issue
August 12
Erratum published
September 4
See the relevant page for details.
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
March 8
Academ-AI (a)
March 21
Academ-AI (b)
April 30
Article removed
May 2
See the relevant page for details.