‘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/d41586-026-01360-8Review mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those cau…

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?