Mysterious citations are routinely appearing in peer-reviewed publications throughout the scientific community. In this paper, we developed an automated pipeline and examine the proceedings of four major high-performance computing conferences, comparing the accuracy of citations between the 2021 and 2025 proceedings. While none of the 2021 papers contained mysterious citations, every 2025 proceeding did, impacting 2-6\% of published papers. In addition, we observe a sharp rise in paper title and authorship errors, motivating the need for stronger citation-verification practice. No author within our dataset acknowledged using AI to generate citations even though all four conference policies required it, indicating current policies are insufficient.

翻译：在科学界同行评议的出版物中，神秘引用现象正频繁出现。本文开发了一套自动化流程，并考察了四个主要高性能计算会议的论文集，比较了2021年与2025年会议论文中引用的准确性。尽管2021年的论文中未发现任何神秘引用，但2025年的所有会议论文集中均存在该现象，影响了2-6%的已发表论文。此外，我们观察到论文标题与作者署名错误数量急剧上升，这凸显了加强引用验证实践的必要性。尽管所有四个会议的政策均要求声明，但我们数据集中没有任何作者承认使用AI生成引用，这表明现行政策尚不完善。