SciPeerBench labels each paper across 14 dimensions — statistical fraud, figure manipulation, citation rings, LLM detection, and more. Nobody has done this before.

14 Fraud Dimensions Per Paper

Column	What it detects
stat_audit_score	p-hacking, sample size issues
figure_forensics_score	image duplication, manipulation
methodology_score	causation claims, missing controls
citation_score	self-citation rings
reproducibility_score	code and data availability
novelty_score	incremental vs novel work
grim_score	mathematically impossible means
sprite_score	impossible distributions
granularity_score	Benford law violations
pcurve_score	publication bias
effect_size_score	inflated effect sizes
retraction_score	cited retracted papers
cartel_score	citation ring networks
llm_score	AI-generated paper detection

Famous Fraud Cases Included

Wakefield 1998 (The Lancet) — vaccines-autism data fabrication
LaCour 2014 (Science) — survey data never existed
Obokata 2014 (Nature) — STAP cells image manipulation
Stapel — 58 psychology papers fabricated over 10 years

Data Sources

PubMed Retracted Publication[pt] — US National Library of Medicine
CrossRef update-type:retraction — publisher verified DOI registry
PubMed Expression of Concern[pt] — journal flagged papers
Manual curation — court and media verified fraud cases

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Citation

@dataset{nadeem2026scipeerai_bench,
  author    = {Nadeem, Sameer},
  title     = {SciPeerBench: Multi-dimensional Scientific Fraud Detection Benchmark},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Abu-Sameer-66/SciPeerBench}
}

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Text Generation • Updated Apr 22

Category	Count	Description
CONFIRMED_FRAUD	286	PubMed retracted + CrossRef verified
CLEAN	223	High quality multi-field papers
SUSPECTED_FRAUD	109	Journal expressions of concern
BORDERLINE	16	Famous disputed cases
BASELINE_ELITE	10	Nobel Prize and landmark papers

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