Within hours of researchers from prestigious institutions discovering they were listed as authors on a fabricated paper, the website for the journal and publisher has been taken down. Cardiologist Eric Topol, the executive vice president of Scripps Research, posted on X that his name appeared on a “fraudulent” paper published in the so-called Journal of Digital Health Implementation. He suspected the article, dated March 29, 2026 and titled “Implementation Science for AI Integration in Digital Health Systems,” was AI-generated.

Michael Matheny, a professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told that he discovered he was listed as an author on the paper after a colleague asked him about it. He then alerted the others listed, noting there were “small errors in the naming and affiliation.” For example, Matheny’s middle initial was incorrect, and several of the authors’ first initials were also wrong. Of the six authors listed, five told that they had never seen the paper before. It was couldn’t find a researcher matching the sixth name and affiliation, A. B. Martin with the Imperial College of London.


Source https://retractionwatch.com/2026/04/23/eric-topol-ellinger-publishing-media-journal-digital-health-impersonation/

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