Hallucinated citations are polluting scientific literature. What can be done?
nature.com> Johnston says she is taking a hard line: when such a citation is found in a submission to RIPE, she says, the authors are prohibited from resubmitting the work to the journal.
This is the way to go. The other journals are being too nice.
A middle ground might be to ban them for 5 years. If they do it again after the ban, then they get a lifetime ban.
Put the burden on the researcher. If they are unwilling to take on this task, what other corners did they cut?
prohibited from sutmitting ~the~ work to the journal
How about prohibiting them entirely ... as if they've plagiarized someone else's work (which they did)
that was the intent of my comment. The tildes were supposed to mean strikethrough