- Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?Nov 27, 2025 13:35
- I don't think incoherent AI slop is limited to Scientific Reports. It's pretty pervasive and getting worse. The issue with eLife is that the "everything gets accepted" model provides such negative credibility in other venues, so it is an uphill climb and still seems a weird hill to die on.
- Actually, according to an eLife information session, eLife desk reject ~90% of submissions. So the ones which do get reviewed tend to be high-quality! Even if, like the paper @neural-reckoning.org is referring to, the reviewers don't agree with everything.
