Neurosurgical Review has begun retracting scores of commentaries and letters to the editor after getting inundated by AI-generated manuscripts. At the top of the affiliations list: Saveetha University in Chennai, India, an institution that, as reported Retraction Watch with Science in 2023, engages in aggressive self-citation. At publication time (11 February, 2025), Neurosurgical Review had retracted 129 papers so far this year.

87 were written by researchers from Saveetha and 35 of them were written by two researchers at Saveetha Dental College and Hospital, Hethesh Chellapandian and Sivakamavalli Jeyachandran. In an email, Jeyachandran told that he disagreed with the retractions. He called the decision to retract his articles because he didn’t disclose the use of LLMs "highly troubling. … Retractions are meant for serious misconduct — fabricated data, plagiarism, or harmful misinformation — not procedural oversights that do not impact the scientific record".

In January, 2025, Saveetha was among the schools identified as engaging in "questionable authorship practices" in a study published in January in Quantitative Science Studies, including a 100% growth in research output from 2019 to 2023. Aretraction for Saveetha researchers in another journal, Heliyon CellPress, highlighted one such practice – citation stacking.

Source https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/as-springer-nature-journal-clears-ai-papers-one-universitys-retractions-rise-drastically/

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