
The Retraction Crisis 2026: How AI Paper Mills, Hallucinated Citations and Peer Review Collapse Are Reshaping Science
The 2026 retraction crisis is a capacity failure: industrialized fraud can place manuscripts faster than publishers can investigate and remove them. This report reviews verified 2025-2026 retraction data, how hallucinated citations work, the financial fallout from Hindawi, and why integrity screening must move upstream, before peer review.



