‘A WASTE OF TIME FOR ALL OF US’: CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE OF THE PEER-REVIEW WARS

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Nature, Published online: 03 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01360-8 Review mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle?

Nature reports that nature, Published online: 03 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01360-8 Review mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing.

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