"More than 20% of chemistry researchers have deliberately added information they believe to be incorrect into their manuscripts during the peer review process, in order to get their papers published."
https://cen.acs.org/policy/publishing/One-five-chemists-deliberately-added/103/web/2025/10

* Primary source
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08989621.2025.2564106
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#AddedValue #Chemistry #PeerReview #Reviewer2 #ScholComm

Time to write the last CHI reviews, so I'm putting on my R2 hat 😈

#chi2026 #academia #Reviewer2 @sigchi

Fed up with having to reconcile comments from Reviewer 1 and #Reviewer2?

At eLife, editors and reviewers discuss their reviews with each other before reaching a consensus, letting you focus on how to improve.
https://elifesciences.org/about/peer-review?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=submissions_organic&utm_content=consultative_fedup

Two weeks since calling out some poor reviewer and editor practices at IOP Publishing, sadly this story continues.

I was looking through comments from #reviewer2, a different reviewer than the #reviewer1, who used #ChatGPT to suggest papers that should have been included, and which were fake, and which was not spotted by the editorial team.

#Reviewer2 seems to have also used a LLM model in their review. I wasn't certain until I got to the suggested references shown here. The hyperlinks look okay, but behind them are references to papers that are all Indian case studies and all with the same authors.

I fed to the review into ChatGPT, asking if there was hallmarks of LLM use. It seems that it is likely this review was.

Hmm, it seems there is more poor reviewer practice, and now, two unethical reviews out of three for one manuscript submission that were not spotted by the editor at Environmental Research Communications.

#academia #academicpublishing

So, habe jetzt das #Review abgegeben und das Paper zur Publikation empfohlen.
Das andere Paper, das ich neulich gereviewed habe wurde die Tage publiziert.
Hab dem Hauptautor ne Glückwunschmail geschickt.

Überlege nur, ob ich ihm auf der nächsten Konferenz erzähle, dass ich #Reviewer2 war. 🤔
Weiß nicht. Wie macht ihr das?

#academia #academicchatter

The best reviewer comments for the morning:

"Overall, this is a very solid manuscript..."

"The paragraph is somewhat mysterious to me."

Also after a positive review, reviewer #2 (no surprises here) suggests to make additional experiments with bacteria. The whole study is about yeast transcription machinery, so this is indeed an interesting addition...

#AcademicChatter #reviewer #reviewer2