Atlas of Biomedical Literature Could Help Track Down Fabricated Studies

June 30, 2023

(Science) – Wish there was a quicker way to catch fraudulent papers? Or to find out which types of studies are most likely to be published by women authors? Good luck trying to spot trends in the scientific literature—a morass of millions of papers that is increasing in size at an unrelenting pace. Now, there’s hope, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI). A new, publicly available atlas of biomedical papers, reported on the preprint server bioRxiv, maps the relationships between nearly 21 million articles, providing a “bird’s-eye view” of the literature. If kept up to date, it could help scientific sleuths identify patterns and trends that are otherwise difficult for humans to trace. (Read More)