Nearly 10% of Cancer Papers Flagged as Potentially Fake
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-08-20
Researchers from Queensland University of Technology developed a machine learning tool to screen cancer research publications and flag those likely from paper mills.
- The model was trained on 2,202 retracted paper mill papers.
- 261,245 out of 2.6 million cancer papers were flagged, representing 9.87% of the field.
- The problem exploded 16x in two decades.
- 36% of China-affiliated cancer papers were flagged.
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