Machine-written papers flood journals, pushing a $22B publishing industry toward mergers
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-10-12
Per FT: machine-written papers are flooding academic journals, and the cost of screening them is pushing the $22B publishing industry toward consolidation.
- Filtering the flood requires humans: Elsevier has grown its reviewer pool by more than a third since 2022, to 1.9M.
- Rising quality-control costs, plus fears that chatbots will devalue paid research, have pressured publishers like Springer Nature (quoted text truncated here).
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