1+ day, 25+ min ago  (343+ words) Collectively, new policies try to slow AI excess while defending evaluation integrity. Yet regulation alone cannot guarantee fairness. Next, we examine how automated prescreening is already transforming workloads. Prescreening tools cut workload and cost yet import new accuracy and fairness…...

19+ hour, 29+ min ago  (345+ words) Jinsung Yoon, Research Scientist, and Tomas Pfister, Director, Google Cloud Introducing two AI agents to streamline academic research. These include: Paper Viz Agent, a visualizer agent for drawing academic figures, and Scholar Peer, a reviewer agent that automatically and rigorously…...

21+ hour, 1+ min ago  (224+ words) Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests. Posted by Dbt2 at 02: 31 PM | 5 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | Too bad that AI never went to grad school. Or college. Or high…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (1584+ words) As manuscript submissions rise and reviewer fatigue continues to strain academic publishing, journals are increasingly using AI to help screen papers before full review. In 2026, AI tools for academic peer review generally fall into two groups:" This guide compares the…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (844+ words) A system was given a research direction and left mostly on its own in the Tokyo offices of" The post The AI Model That Wrote a Scientific Paper, Passed Peer Review, and Was Published Before Anyone Noticed appeared first on…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (848+ words) Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics AI4 Science: New Paradigms and Trends Front. Res. Metr. Anal. , 08 April 2026 1. Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain 2. Bahrain Defence Force Royal Medical Services, Riffa, Bahrain…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (414+ words) The ousted AI-powered editor started a tell-all blog At first glance, it sounds like an AI arguing its own case, but that's not exactly what happened, the reality is arguably more important. The account, reportedly operating under the name "Tom,…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (277+ words) Two researchers from the University of Nottingham are part of an international collaboration of 865 researchers behind the SCORE (Systematising Confidence in Open Research and Evidence) programme, which has released major new findings on research credibility in three papers published in…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (176+ words) Professor pitches high-quality reviews as antidote to firms using scientific techniques for own commercial ends High-quality peer review should be incentivised through a points system to tackle the growing risks from AI-driven "bullshit science" pushed by companies with ulterior motives,…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago  (193+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. If your week flew by " we know ours did " catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch…...