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Bioengineered lost its Web of Science listing after 86 retractions. A fake journal used a real Q1 title's credentials to trick authors. A look at the 2026 verification landscape for journal identity, indexing, and metrics.
Detectors that mistake polished human writing for machine output penalize exactly the multilingual researchers universities want to support. A review of the 2026 evidence on false positives, watermarking, and paraphrase attacks.