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Science & ResearchAug 3, 2026

‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review wars

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.

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?

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