Letter

To hire good scientists, look at their peer-reviewing records

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Citation

Comerford D (2026) To hire good scientists, look at their peer-reviewing records. Nature, 652, Art. No.: 1420. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01368-0

Abstract
First paragraph: Two of your recent news articles highlight misaligned incentives in the marketplace of ideas. First, hundreds of evaluations of papers submitted to a leading AI conference were copied and pasted from large language models (see Nature 652, 281–282; 2026). Second, a substantial proportion of recent publications in social science failed to replicate (see Nature https://doi.org/q3zf; 2026).

Journal
Nature: Volume 652

StatusPublished
FundersCoefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy)
Publication date30/04/2026
Publication date online30/04/2026
Date accepted by journal15/04/2026
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC
ISSN0028-0836
eISSN1476-4687

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Professor David Comerford

Professor David Comerford

Professor, Strategy, Operations, Analytics and Systems