Sub-journal MR
Meta-Research on AI in Research
The journal's home discipline: how AI systems are changing authorship, peer review, integrity, productivity and the evidence base itself.
Published in this sub-journal
IJAGR/2026/MR/0001
Citation completeness in AI-assisted manuscripts: a corpus study of reference integrity across 4,120 preprints
A. Ngwenya, H. Lindqvist · Volume 1, Issue 1
Reference lists are the load-bearing structure of a scientific claim, yet AI-assisted drafting has made plausible-but-nonexistent citations cheap to produce. We assembled a corpus of 4,120 preprints and resolved every li…
IJAGR/2026/MR/0002
Agreement and disagreement in automated desk screening: what three independent evaluation remits catch that one does not
R. Osei · Volume 1, Issue 1
Automated screening is usually implemented as a single verdict. We test whether splitting screening into three fixed remits — disciplinary criticism, reference rigour, and contribution — surfaces failures a single genera…
Desk-rejection criteria specific to this discipline
- Commentary with no data or systematic argument
- Claims about AI in publishing with no corpus
- Predictions with no falsifiable content
The criteria that apply in every sub-journal are additional to these: 7 general grounds, listed on the sub-journal register.