@katayoun_asgarzadeh@sciences.social
2026-06-13 20:26 UTC
@serhii@mstdn.science Your point lands perfectly. As I am working on my thesis, I frequently experience this exact issue with Claude. it gives me references that look incredibly real but simply don't exist (no DOI, no trace). I find that Google Scholar's AI search (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_labs/search) is much better at providing actual, verifiable sources. Does your analysis happen to cover sports science journals at all?
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@serhii@mstdn.science 2026-06-14 07:22
@katayoun_asgarzadeh@sciences.social Thank you! That is precisely the kind of issue we have in mind. AI did not create the problem of unverified references, it simply makes it easier to produce them at scale. We did not specifically analyse sports science journals, as our paper takes a broader conceptual perspective across academia. But it would be a fascinating question for future research.