Editorial: It’s about time for transparency in peer review Nature will begin publishing all peer review comments. Other journals should follow suit
Critics of scientific publishing suggest reform is needed to resolve the #PeerReviewCrisis. We want to know—What do you think could improve peer review? Are the comments you receive useful? Have you been retaliated against? Share your experience here: cen.acs.org/policy/publi...
Editorial: It’s about time for transparency in peer review Nature will begin publishing all peer review comments. Other journals should follow suit
Critics of scientific publishing suggest reform is needed to resolve the #PeerReviewCrisis. What do you think could improve peer review? Are the comments you receive useful? Have you been retaliated against? Share your experience here: cen.acs.org/policy/publi...
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Critics of scientific publishing suggest reform is needed to resolve the #PeerReviewCrisis. We want to know—What do you think could improve peer review? Are the comments you receive useful? Have you been retaliated against? Share your experience here: cen.acs.org/policy/publi... #chemsky 🧪
ALT Text: Black-and-white cartoon: A fatigued peer reviewer sits at a desk buried in towering stacks of research papers. He stares at a manuscript titled “Novel Findings in Hypothetical Rodent Physiology,” illustrated with a winged, three-tailed cartoon rat. Behind him, a robot labeled “AI Author 9000” feeds more papers onto a conveyor belt marked “Peer Review Pipeline,” while a distant building bears a giant dollar sign and the label “For-Profit Journal HQ.” A wall notice reads “Reviewer Appreciation Month — Again.” A caption below the scene says, “At least this one didn’t plagiarize — unless Disney’s involved.”
The flood of academic papers is straining peer review and rewarding quantity over quality—one AI-generated study even included a fake rat with impossible anatomy. A reckoning is coming, with reform on the horizon. #AcademicPublishing #PeerReviewCrisis scientificinquirer.com/2025/07/14/d...
Scientists’ suit against top academic publishers lays bare deep frustration over unpaid peer review
Researchers allege journal publishers violated federal antitrust law
#PeerReviewCrisis #AcademicPublishing #UnpaidLabor #OpenScience #FairPayForResearchers
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Just got a 'request to review' where the editor sent me a *table* of papers they can't find reviewers for and asked me to please select one or two that I'd be willing to do. For these (hours) of work they offer 100 points that can be used to purchase services from the publisher. #peerreviewcrisis
I guess I should clarify that by 'single, objectively terrible review' I mean that the editor at this major journal was *unable to find more than one reviewer - and zero qualified reviewers - for our manuscript*. That is emblematic of the #peerreviewcrisis . Something fundamental needs to change.
Wow. We just got hit full in the face with the #peerreviewcrisis currently facing science publishing. Our manuscript was rejected from a major journal (with invitation to resubmit) on the basis of a single, objectively terrible review that used the word 'sketchy'... Twice! Who's got solutions??
Say it with me, peer reviewers everywhere, "I cannot use ChatGPT to write my reviews. I cannot use ChatGPT to write my reviews. I cannot use ChatGPT to write my reviews. I cannot use ChatGPT to write my reviews." #peerreviewcrisis #researchintegrity #omfg 😱 #academicbluesky
reducing the willingness of agents to collaborate, insofar as they substitute intrinsic motivation with extrinsic motivation."
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