Advances in generative AI allow scammers to produce plausible-looking manuscripts, craft personalized author invitations that reference a researcher's prior publications and conference history, and mimic the style of legitimate journals.
Predatory publishers then issue digital object identifiers (DOIs) and list fabricated author names, making the false papers discoverable in citation databases.
A documented case study, published separately in Research Integrity and Peer Review (Springer Nature, 2025), describes a researcher who discovered an AI-generated article published under her name with a valid DOI despite never having submitted the work.
Advances in generative AI allow scammers to produce plausible-looking manuscripts, craft personalized author invitations that reference a researcher's prior publications and conference history, and mimic the style of legitimate journals. Predatory publishers then issue digital object identifiers (DOIs) and list fabricated author names, making the false papers discoverable in citation databases. A documented case study, published separately in Research Integrity and Peer Review (Springer Nature, 2025), describes a researcher who discovered an AI-generated article published under her name with a valid DOI despite never having submitted the work.
