ICLR's one-paper limit for first-time authors is fueling a guest-author market
Ritwik_G · x · 2026-09-19
ICLR limited first-time authors to a single submission this cycle. The poster reports receiving multiple emails asking to be added as an author purely to bypass the cap, arguing that with senior authors already added for prestige, the rate of "paper laundering" is set to rise.
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