Companies pay $300 per paper to survey ICLR/NeurIPS authors — grads can cash in
Icy-Park4287 · reddit · 2026-10-31
A grad student reports companies cold-emailing first authors of accepted ICLR, IMCL and NeurIPS papers (2024-2026) to pay $300 per paper for detailed surveys on the research process — about 45 minutes each plus 30 minutes of onboarding, capped at 2 papers.
The poster suspects the buyers are building a high-quality dataset of how research actually gets done, joking that it's meant to replace researchers like him. There's also a referral scheme: $200 per referred person, and the poster offers to split it so referees get $400 per submission. A useful side income for cash-strapped grad students.
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