(25 Mar 2026) A major artificial-intelligence conference has rejected 497 papers — roughly 2% of submissions — whose authors violated AI-use policies in their peer reviews of other articles submitted to the meeting. The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), to be held in Seoul in July, has a reciprocal review policy, meaning that, bar…
(10 Dec 2025) At most scientific publications, papers co-authored by artificial intelligence (AI) are not welcome. At a new open platform called aiXiv, they are embraced. The platform goes all in on AI: It accepts both AI- and human-authored work, uses built-in AI reviewers for baseline quality screening, and guides authors through revisions based on the chatbots’…
(15 Sept 2025) A new global reviewer survey from IOP Publishing (IOPP) reveals a growing divide in attitudes among reviewers in the physical sciences regarding the use of generative AI in peer review. The study follows a similar survey conducted last year showing that while some researchers are beginning to embrace AI tools, others remain concerned…
Researcher who waited nearly two years for rejection claims ‘nonsensical’ criticisms of his paper must have been chatbot-generated. (11 Jul 2025) A UK academic has criticized the suspected use of chatbots in peer review after he was given lengthy instructions on improving his statistical analysis – despite not including any statistics in his rejected paper.…
(4 Jul 2025) Researchers from major universities, including Waseda University in Tokyo, have been found to have inserted secret prompts in their papers so artificial intelligence-aided reviewers will give them positive feedback. The revelation, first reported by Nikkei this week, raises serious concerns about the integrity of the research in the papers and highlights flaws…
(19 Jun 2025) Nature, a leading international scientific journal published by Springer Nature, has made transparent peer review (TPR) a standard for all newly submitted primary research articles selected for publication. The policy shift, which builds on the journal’s prior opt-in model introduced in 2020, marks a formal transition to universal TPR following a successful trial. Under…
(28 Mar 2025) A spate of research findings offer fresh evidence in the debate about whether peer reviewers should be paid for their time and expertise — a fraught topic that has provoked discussion among researchers. This month, two journals released data from their own experiments that suggest that offering payments of around US$250 to researchers…
(11 Dec 2024) An experimental journal is paying peer reviewers the equivalent of US$150 per review in a specially developed cryptocurrency. The publication is hosted on a platform aiming to make science more open and efficient, and rewards users with a token called ResearchCoin for engaging with content. The platform, called ResearchHub, launched in 2020 and is backed…
At major computer-science publication venues, up to 17% of the peer reviews are now written by artificial intelligence. We need guidelines before things get out of hand. (5 Nov 2024) Since the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT was released in late 2022, computer scientists have noticed a troubling trend: chatbots are increasingly used to…
(25 Sep 2024) As Peer Review Week kicks off, STM is excited to announce the launch of the Peer Review Terminology website—a new resource designed to bring greater clarity, consistency, and transparency to the peer review process. Created through a partnership between STM and NISO, this initiative reflects our shared mission to enhance scholarly communication and streamline research…