I often wonder how academic publishing & peer-review can continue to work, in the era of the LLM. One specific issue: is the "megajournal" concept now dead? Pioneered by PLOS One, it was (loosely) the idea of a journal that will publish anything that meets basic quality criteria. Now in 2025 that seems naive, because (a) those criteria can be gamed by LLMs; (b) peer-review is unreliable to enforce the criteria, awash in generated text from both sides. #academicpublishing #peerreview #megajournal
Open Access, Scholarly Communication, and Open Science in Psychology: An Overview for Researchers – InfoDoc MicroVeille

Please look at the #Wikipedia entry about the #megajournal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_journal

Does it sound unbiased / objective to you?

A greeting like

"DEAR PROF. ,

Greetings for the Day!!

We are pleased to inform you that MEGA JOURNAL OF CASE REPORTS (ISSN
2236-4960) is an International open-access peer-review journal which
has been listed in PUBMED and indexed in Google scholar and it
has (IMPACT FACTOR: 2.809**)."

must be is legit. Right?

#OpenAccess #publishing #PeerReview #predatory #Beall

Mega journal - Wikipedia