When authors are the best judges of their work
Summary
Nature Computational Science, Published online: 28 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s43588-026-01046-1 A large-scale experiment at a major machine learning conference shows that when researchers privately rank their own submissions, those rankings forecast future citations more reliably than peer-review scores.
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- Discovery channel
- Nature Portfolio · Nature Computational Science
- Original material
- www.nature.com
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