Intensive Care Medicine (Springer)
Artificial intelligence to enhance hemodynamic management in the ICU (Vlaar, Myatra & Jung), Intensive Care Medicine — retracted
Withdrawn · 29 November 2025
What was fabricated
Among 15 references, a fabricated citation to the very journal the letter appeared in (a non-existent self-reference).
What happened as a result
Retracted by the Editor-in-Chief on 29 November 2025. The notice cites a peer review not carried out under the journal's policies and references that could not be verified; the authors stated the non-existent references came from using generative AI to build the reference list. All authors disagree with the retraction.
Sources
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00134-024-07752-6
- https://retractionwatch.com/2026/01/28/medical-journal-publishes-a-paper-on-ai-with-a-fake-reference-to-itself/
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