Is artificial intelligence a world-wide threat for bio- and molecular sciences helping to generate fraud?

Focus
The publish-or-perish imperative has fueled a surge of mis- and disinformation, with fabricated papers now numbering in the thousands each year in biomedicine alone. These fabrications increasingly rely on artificial intelligence and industrialized plagiarism, underscoring the urgent need to rethink current practices in scientific publishing. We present countermeasures developed by an international panel of experts in June 2025, to be published as the “Stockholm Declaration” on the “Reformation of Scientific Publishing.”