NEWS YOU CAN USE: Want to make sure your paper gets published? Just do your own peer review like this researcher did. “When we saw the language in that notice — ‘compromised and inappropriately influenced by the first author’ — we thought it might have been self-peer review, so we asked Springer. They confirmed that it was, and let us know that Lei had done the same thing with a paper published in another Springer journal, Regional Environmental Change.”