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University of Chicago Booth professor Nicholas Polson put his name on more than 200 academic papers in nine months this year. SSRN later pulled 257 papers he wrote or co-wrote and froze the upload accounts after other researchers flagged the volume.
Most faculty publish a handful of papers a year. A busy professor might clear a dozen. Polson’s 2026 list ran far past that. Counts on SSRN hit 258 working papers by late August, including 104 that month and six posted on a single day. Many were full-length pieces, not short notes. Frequent co-author Vadim Sokolov of George Mason University appeared on more than 100 of them. Polson also issued 14 books this year.
SSRN requires authors to disclose material use of AI. Those papers did not. The platform said missing disclosure was not the main problem. The submission pattern was.
Polson told The Washington Post that AI makes a productive researcher more productive and that tedious work gets simpler. He called the criticism jealousy and an attempt to take his method. He confirmed he used AI in the research process. He did not explain the missing disclosure.
Columbia statistician Andrew Gelman read one of the papers and said parts read like a chatbot wrote them. Some titles sat in Polson’s core fields of statistics and mathematics. Others did not.
The case is now a live test for preprint platforms: how to handle output that no human review pipeline was built to absorb.
#AI #AcademicPublishing #HigherEd #SSRN #ResearchIntegrity #GenerativeAI #UniversityOfChicago #Preprints #SciencePolicy #FutureOfResearch
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University of Chicago Booth professor Nicholas Polson put his name on more than 200 academic papers in nine months this year. SSRN later pulled 257 papers he wrote or co-wrote and froze the upload accounts after other researchers flagged the volume.
Most faculty publish a handful of papers a year. A busy professor might clear a dozen. Polson’s 2026 list ran far past that. Counts on SSRN hit 258 working papers by late August, including 104 that month and six posted on a single day. Many were full-length pieces, not short notes. Frequent co-author Vadim Sokolov of George Mason University appeared on more than 100 of them. Polson also issued 14 books this year.
SSRN requires authors to disclose material use of AI. Those papers did not. The platform said missing disclosure was not the main problem. The submission pattern was.
Polson told The Washington Post that AI makes a productive researcher more productive and that tedious work gets simpler. He called the criticism jealousy and an attempt to take his method. He confirmed he used AI in the research process. He did not explain the missing disclosure.
Columbia statistician Andrew Gelman read one of the papers and said parts read like a chatbot wrote them. Some titles sat in Polson’s core fields of statistics and mathematics. Others did not.
The case is now a live test for preprint platforms: how to handle output that no human review pipeline was built to absorb.
#AI #AcademicPublishing #HigherEd #SSRN #ResearchIntegrity #GenerativeAI #UniversityOfChicago #Preprints #SciencePolicy #FutureOfResearch
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