“It will make our customers’ lives easier by helping data scientists to mine a large body of references in one go,” says Steven Inchcoombe, chief publishing officer at Springer Nature.

Making reference lists from articles free to view is insufficient for these purposes; to be useful, open references must be stored in a machine-readable format in a centralized repository.

Several citations in the original report, which focuses on children’s health, referenced papers that did not exist. White ...

Because funders and universities commonly consider citation metrics when making decisions about grants, hiring and promotions, citations can have a significant impact on a scholar’s career, says ...

Researchers listed in the MAHA report have come forward since its publication saying the articles cited don't exist or were used inaccurately.

The news outlet NOTUS first reported the presence of false citations, and The New York Times identified additional faulty references. By midafternoon on Thursday, the White House had uploaded a ...