On March 12, 2026 at 12:00 (Moscow time), an open webinar titled “When a Reference Looks Real: Bibliographic Confabulations Generated by AI in the Practice of a Scholarly Journal” will be held as part of the Elpub Educational Program. Participation is free, but registration is required.
Registration: https://pruffme.com/landing/elpub/fakereference
The speaker: Svetlana Aleksandrovna Morozova, Deputy Director of the Fundamental Library and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Theory and Methods of Continuing Pedagogical Education, Institute of Pedagogy, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia.
The session will address one of the most pressing challenges in contemporary scholarly communication — the emergence of inaccurate yet seemingly credible bibliographic references generated by AI tools. Based on an analysis of Russian‑language articles published in peer‑reviewed journals, the webinar will demonstrate that fake references appear not only in papers by early‑career researchers but also in works authored by experienced scholars, including journals indexed in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI), listed by the Higher Attestation Commission (VAK), and included in the White List.
Key topics:
- practical approaches to classifying and detecting AI‑generated inaccurate references;
- fake bibliographies as indicators of AI‑induced hallucinations within research texts;
- the formation of “propagation chains” of false references through subsequent publications.
Participants will receive a certificate.
