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263ormally requested by a journal, has the potential to be published in journals nominated by the authors or, where no journals are specified, leading journals in its field, provided it contains no major error.</p> 264<p>Of the 100 human review places, 60 will be allocated on a rolling basis in submission order to entries whose AI reports identify them as candidates for leading journals in their field. The remaining 40 will be allocated after entries close, divided among disciplines in proportion to the number of submissions and then ranked within each discipline.</p> 265<p>Researchers whose papers are not selected for the 100 funded reviews will receive $49 off XSci’s human review service for the same paper, valid until 31 March 2027.</p> 266<p>Authors can submit papers elsewhere at any time. Papers already published in journals or conference proceedings are ineligible, although papers already available as preprints or under review elsewhere can be entered. Each author can submit up to three papers, subject to the agreement of their co-authors.</p> 267<p>“Science has never produced so much, and never checked so little of it,” Dr Jeffrey Poon, Publishing and Editorial Director at Xsci, noted. “The bottleneck has moved. It is no longer hard to produce a paper. It is hard to know which papers to trust. We think the answer is not to slow production down but to bring the checking up to speed, and to do it in the open.”</p> 268<p>Poon also remarked “this competition is the first public test of AI review against real papers at any scale, and that it can be seen to fail”.</p> 269<p>XSci said it will publish details of the method used to select papers, a breakdown of entries and awards by discipline, and an assessment of where the process encountered problems and could be improved.</p> 270<p>A method note outlining the selection signals, but not the threshold value, is due to be published on 6 November 2026. 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