24 stories tagged academic-publishing, newest first.
80 points by TangerineDream | 37 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting that an AI-assisted peer-reviewed paper on Z-Library cites a nonexistent TorrentFreak article and other unfindable sources.
18 points by Anon84 | 36 comments
Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay by Allison Stanger arguing analytical academic writing should be judged by quality rather than whether AI helped write it.
36 points by jruohonen | 12 comments
A For Better Science blog post critiquing an apparently AI-generated academic book on water pollutant removal materials, illustrated with an AI-style infographic.
579 points by ent101 | 603 comments
A Mastodon post by Terence Tao arguing that "Math 2.0" should value exposition, community building and new directions over raw problem solving, with AI playing a role.
140 points by 50kIters | 70 comments
arXiv blog post announcing an updated submission rate limit policy, effective October 1, 2026, in response to AI tools increasing paper submission volumes.
124 points by zaik | 85 comments
Andrew Gelman blog post about Chicago Booth professor Nicholas Polson posting 258 working papers to SSRN in 2026, apparently aided by AI.
21 points by pseudolus | 18 comments
Phys.org news article about how references to The Beatles appear in research papers across academic disciplines; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.
342 points by Alifatisk | 122 comments
Google Scholar search for papers containing the tortured phrase "kidney disappointment"; the page loaded as an unusual-traffic block page.
539 points by gjuggler | 191 comments
A tweet by Thomas G. Dietterich reminding arXiv authors that signing a paper means taking full responsibility for its contents, however they were generated.
774 points by bookstore-romeo | 268 comments
Science magazine news article reporting that the arXiv preprint server is becoming independent from Cornell University; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
534 points by qsi | 95 comments
Substack post by Chris Brunet reporting that Elsevier retracted 9 economics papers and removed 7 editors over a finance journal citation cartel.
681 points by timr | 350 comments
Andrew Gelman blog post arguing a highly cited 2014 Management Science paper on corporate sustainability and performance is fatally flawed and uncorrected.
917 points by segmenta | 489 comments
GPTZero blog post reporting its analysis of 4,841 NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers, finding at least 100 with confirmed AI-hallucinated content.
1976 points by Kerrick | 233 comments
ACM announcement page stating that starting January 2026 all ACM publications and artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be open access.
483 points by dw64 | 228 comments
arXiv blog post announcing that its computer science category has updated moderation practice for review/survey articles and position papers.
402 points by pseudolus | 350 comments
Science magazine news article reporting an analysis finding that sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake scientific papers.
365 points by pcvarmint | 47 comments
ACM page announcing its transition to a fully open access publishing model for all its research content by the end of 2025.
543 points by m463 | 97 comments
NIH Director statement announcing an accelerated July 1, 2025 implementation date for the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy making funded research freely available.
788 points by GavCo | 256 comments
A Mastodon post by mathematician Terence Tao noting a journal rejected one of his papers and reflecting on how common, yet rarely discussed, rejection is in academia.
363 points by hn_acker | 97 comments
TorrentFreak article on a study finding that students, including Chinese postgraduates, use Z-Library to overcome expensive books and limited access to academic material.
1421 points by nabla9 | 775 comments
A Science magazine blog post about scientific research fraud; the capture shows only a Cloudflare human-verification challenge.
498 points by nabla9 | 173 comments
SPARC resource profiling how MIT Libraries handled ending its Big Deal subscription contract with Elsevier, part of its unbundling profiles knowledge base.
612 points by sohkamyung | 92 comments
Nature news article on Japan allocating 10 billion yen to institutional repositories to make the nation's publicly funded research free to read.
481 points by mindracer | 200 comments
Guardian/Observer article on the entire editorial board of a global science journal resigning in protest over an academic publisher's 'unethical' fees.