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How LLMs Cite and Why It Matters: A Cross-Model Audit of Reference Fabrication in AI-Assisted Academic Writing and Methods to Detect Phantom Citations

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Main Author:	Naser, MZ
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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