AI ghost papers flood academic journals, threatening legitimate author credibility

Fake AI-generated papers contaminate publishing integrity and undermine real author work.

This story ran in the Coral Wire edition of Fri, Aug 28 2026, when the Coral Index stood at 68/100 (Tailwinds building).

Coral Wire selects stories by a Claude-graded relevance score and writes each headline and one-line summary with an Anthropic Claude model from the linked source. Story gathering is not AI: it is a fixed set of feeds and dockets. The linked original is always the authority.

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