发现近300篇ACL论文含虚假引用，影响学术可信度
HalluCitation Matters: Revealing the Impact of Hallucinated References with 300 Hallucinated Papers in ACL Conferences
- 系统检测2024-2025年ACL系列会议论文中的虚假引用
- 超300篇论文存在至少一条虚构参考文献，半数集中于EMNLP 2025
- 百余篇含虚假引用的论文被主会或论文集接收，需警惕学术诚信风险
近年来，审稿、预印本及已发表论文中频繁出现与实际文献不符的虚假引用，严重威胁科研可信度。本文将此类现象称为HalluCitation，系统分析了ACL、NAACL和EMNLP在2024年和2025年（含主会、Findings及研讨会论文）的全部论文。结果表明，近300篇论文包含至少一条HalluCitation，其中多数发表于2025年。尤为显著的是，超过一半的含伪引论文出现在最新会议EMNLP 2025，且有100多篇被接受为主会或Findings论文，对会议公信力构成实质性影响。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recently, we have often observed hallucinated citations or references that do not correspond to any existing work in papers under review, preprints, or published papers. Such hallucinated citations pose a serious concern to scientific reliability. When they appear in accepted papers, they may also negatively affect the credibility of conferences. In this study, we refer to hallucinated citations as "HalluCitation" and systematically investigate their prevalence and impact. We analyze all papers published at ACL, NAACL, and EMNLP in 2024 and 2025, including main conference, Findings, and workshop papers. Our analysis reveals that nearly 300 papers contain at least one HalluCitation, most of which were published in 2025. Notably, half of these papers were identified at EMNLP 2025, the most recent conference, indicating that this issue is rapidly increasing. Moreover, more than 100 such papers were accepted as main conference and Findings papers at EMNLP 2025, affecting the credibility.
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