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The AI Review Lottery: Widespread AI-Assisted Peer Reviews Boost Paper Scores and Acceptance Rates

Giuseppe Russo, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Tim R. Davidson et al. · 2025 · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Journals and conferences worry that peer reviews assisted by artificial intelligence (AI), in particular, large language models (LLMs), may negatively influence the validity and fairness of the peer-review system, a cornerstone of modern…

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Enhancing the Ethical Culture of Organizations: A Longitudinal Study Using a Comprehensive Ethics Training

Pablo Ruiz‐Palomino, Juliana Toro‐Arias, María del Pilar Rodríguez‐Córdoba et al. · 2025 · Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility

ABSTRACT A supportive ethical culture (EC) can encourage moral behavior among employees and help them avoid wrongdoing. One option for fostering EC is ethics training; its longer‐term effectiveness, however, has rarely been examined,…

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Balanced examination of positive publication bias impact

Mark Ramos · 2025 · Accountability in Research

BACKGROUND: Positive publication bias is the tendency to favor studies that reject null hypotheses for publication and is widely regarded as detrimental to research enterprise quality. However, this view oversimplifies the interplay between selection biases and the statistical properties of hypothesis testing. METHODS: Using theoretical models under varying assumptions about the research landscape in terms of the truth values of hypotheses investigated, we examine how increasing bias towards publishing studies with statistically significant results over those without inflates false positive ra

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