Scholarly Publishing & Open Access
Preprints & Peer Review Models
Preprint server developments and the evolution of review models — registered reports, open and post-publication review, publish-review-curate, and overlay journals.
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- Will Paying Reviewers Ease the Peer Review Crisis?
Advances in Psychology has paid $100/review since 2022; NIH may reward journals that pay reviewers ~$50/hr and publish their comments.…
- RoRI’s Future of Peer Review Report
RoRI’s PEER REVIEW project wraps up with a June 2026 report: peer review has hit a breaking point, and needs a layered, funder-led reform blueprint.…
- ICLR 2026 Breach: Bribery, AI-Written Reviews
A Nov. 2025 OpenReview bug exposed ICLR 2026 reviewer identities, enabling bribery and harassment amid separate reports that 21% of reviews were AI-generated.…
- ASTM Journal Retracts ~170 Papers: A Case Study
ASTM’s Journal of Testing and Evaluation retracted ~166 papers after a vendor found compromised peer review in guest-edited special issues.…
- arXiv’s One-Year Ban for Unchecked AI Content
In May 2026, arXiv began enforcing a one-year submission ban for authors whose papers show unchecked AI-generated content — hallucinated references or leftover chatbot text. Here’s what triggers it, h…
- HHMI’s and the Gates Foundation’s Preprint Mandates: What Changed for Authors
HHMI (2026) and Gates Foundation (2025) both push preprints, but neither strictly requires posting before submission — what each policy actually says.…
- Open Research Europe’s 2026 Relaunch: CERN Hosts Diamond OA Expansion to 11 Countries
CERN will operate the next phase of Open Research Europe from autumn 2026, backed by roughly €17 million in funding from 16 agencies across 11 European countries. Authorship eligibility expands beyond…
- Fully AI-Generated Papers Are Now Passing Peer Review: What Zochi and Sakana Mean for Authorship
Zochi (Intology) and Sakana’s AI Scientist each passed real peer review in 2025 — one at ACL, one at an ICLR workshop. What it means for authorship.…
- arXiv’s 2026 Policy Overhaul: Endorsement, English-Language, and AI-Content Rules
Between late 2025 and early 2026, arXiv tightened endorsement (no more institutional-email-only qualification), required full English-language versions of every submission, and began requiring documen…
- Peer Review Week 2026: “Peer Review Capacity, Volume, Speed, and Quality”
Peer Review Week 2026 runs Sept 14–18 under the theme “Peer Review Capacity: Volume, Speed, and Quality.” What it means for reviewers and publishers.…
- Single-Authored Systematic Reviews Are Rising — and Straining Evidence-Synthesis Norms
Bibliometric data show single-author systematic reviews climbing steadily since 2000 — including inside Cochrane’s own database — despite guidance calling for independent dual-reviewer screening.…
- OMB Grants Rule Would Give Political Appointees Final Sign-Off, Recast Peer Review as Advisory
OMB’s proposed grants rewrite would give political appointees final sign-off and recast peer review as advisory. Comments closed at 340,000+.…
- OSTP’s ‘Golden Age’ Report: What Grants Teams Need
OSTP’s July 2026 report and FY2028 memo direct agencies to fund researchers over institutions and diversify grants beyond peer review.…
- Wiley Investigates Alleged Peer-Review Extortion
Wiley is investigating a peer reviewer accused of demanding payment to approve a manuscript at journal Security and Privacy.…
- The Greenidge Case: A Research-Integrity Review
A Tufts historian’s award-winning book failed an external peer review. The AHA rescinded her prize; she’s no longer at Tufts and disputes the findings.…
- Sage Retracts 8 Papers by Ex-Editor Yannick Griep
Sage retracted 8 papers by ex-editor Yannick Griep for self-reviewed peer review; Radboud separately confirmed data fabrication.…
- Study: 88% of arXiv Preprints Leak Hidden Data in Source Files
A 2.7-million-preprint IEEE S&P 2026 study found 88% of arXiv submissions leak hidden source-file data: passwords, API keys, GPS coordinates.…
- arXiv Becomes an Independent Nonprofit, Spun Out of Cornell
On July 1, 2026, arXiv left Cornell University’s umbrella to become arXiv, Inc., an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Cornell and the Simons Foundation are founding Members with board seats on a 12-mem…
- NIH’s Emergency Peer Review Overhaul, Explained
NIH triaged applications into discussion tiers to clear its shutdown backlog; a related funding-criteria shift drew reported political-influence concerns.…
- Open peer review: signals, identifiers, attribution
Open peer review is mainstreaming. The signals, identifiers, and attribution mechanisms that make it work — and the gaps that still need closing in 2026.…
