Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel(chrisbrunet.com)
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.
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Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions(gptzero.me)
464 points by puttycat | 367 comments
GPTZero blog post reporting that its Citation Check tool found 50+ hallucinated citations in ICLR 2026 submissions missed by peer reviewers.
Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category(blog.arxiv.org)
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.
Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds(science.org)
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.
Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored(rachel.fast.ai)
549 points by chmaynard | 134 comments
Rachel Thomas blog post on how a high-profile Nature paper using a Transformer to predict enzyme functions contained many errors that received far less attention than the original result.
AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)
555 points by kgwgk | 200 comments
Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.
One of my papers got declined today(mathstodon.xyz)
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.
Replace peer review with “peer replication” (2021)(blog.everydayscientist.com)
537 points by dongping | 320 comments
A 2021 Everyday Scientist blog post arguing that traditional peer review should be replaced by "peer replication," where independent labs reproduce published findings.
Walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees(theguardian.com)
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.