Phantom references and the peer-review crisis: how artificial intelligence tests the resilience of scientific periodicals

• Datum: 2026
• Автори та афіліації: V. O. Kharchenko — I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine; V. O. Korneyev — I. I.Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of the NAS of Ukraine; N. S. Filimonova — I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine
• Ключові слова: keywords
• Hauptverfasser: Kharchenko, V. O., Korneyev, V. O., Filimonova, N. S.
• Format: Artikel
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlicht: Publishing House "Akademperiodyka" of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 2026
• Online Zugang: https://ojs.akademperiodyka.org.ua/index.php/Zoodiversity/article/view/971
• Назва журналу: Zoodiversity

The critical vulnerability of the traditional blind peer-review system to the challenges posed by the rapid development of generative tools is examined. Based on a real-world precedent involving the discovery of a completely fabricated bibliography in a submitted manuscript, we analyse the basic mec...