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Review mills are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle? go.nature.com/4wIPjVW

go.nature.com‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review warsReview 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?

3/8/26, 11:26 am6 reposts19 likes

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3 Aug

The crisis in academic publishing goes beyond review mills. When top-tier journals demand exorbitant fees and platforms gatekeep by institutional affiliation, science suffers. Add in heavily centralised funding filters, and the result is clear: alternative ideas are simply drowned out.