🚩Free to read all month: We have a favor to ask of our readers. If you see a reference in #CORR that doesn’t support the claim attributed to it, or a reference that doesn't exist at all, please send us an email. Our journal still has a excellent team of copyeditors, senior editors, and peer reviewers. We screen papers for AI use, spot check references manually and with tools, and help authors fully disclose how they used AI-based tools in their manuscripts. These procedures help us catch hallucinated references (papers that don't exist at all) fairly well. But hallucinated and misattributed claims—which are findings attributed to real sources that do not, in fact, support those claims—are much harder to detect. The problem is most severe in AI-assisted systematic reviews where, in our experience, about 20% to 30% of the references cited don't support the claims the authors say they do. We believe our patients have the right to expect that the evidence base their surgeons are basing treatment decisions on is accurate and reliable. But catching every misattributed claim would require us to pull every reference in every paper, and no journal has the means or time to do this. Thus, our request to you. "The need for professional communities to work together to ensure trustworthiness in a truth-seeking activity like surgical research is as old as the professions themselves. Articles in biomedical journals are useful only to the degree that we can trust them. And so, we’re asking for your help." Read "Editorial: Readers Have a Role in Ensuring Our Patients Can Trust the Claims We Make" here: ow.ly/8Qzg50ZTK1U #orthoTwitter #medTwitter #medicine #surgery #research #meded #science #publishing #AIwriting #AItools #ethics