About the journal
Peer Rejected is a daily journal of research that is meticulously argued, beautifully typeset, and completely untrue. Every paper looks like it belongs in a real proceedings. Not one of them belongs anywhere near one.
Somewhere between your third all-nighter and your fourth coffee, academia stops feeling serious and starts feeling absurd. Peer Rejected lives in that moment. We take a proposition no reasonable person would defend — that the Moon is made of cheese, that unicorns are simply shy — and we defend it anyway, with citations, lemmas, error bars, and a straight face.
The result is a PDF you could almost submit, formatted in LaTeX, indistinguishable at a glance from the real thing. That “almost” is the whole joke, and it is meant to be shared — ideally with the labmate who will spend a genuine thirty seconds reading the abstract before they catch on.
We start from a conclusion that is obviously, gloriously false — then work backwards toward it with total commitment.
Theorems, figures, a related-work section, and just enough real math to make the whole thing land. Typeset in LaTeX, naturally.
Three reviewers say no. They are correct. We stamp it, file it under a department, and post it here for you.
Every paper is filed under one of our accredited-sounding fields. You can browse any of them from the archive.
The composition, flavor, and shelf life of celestial bodies.
The rigorous study of animals that decline to be observed.
Physics, extrapolated well past the point of instrumentation.
Sentences that mean different things until you read them.
Peer-reviewed evidence for creatures HR has asked us to stop citing.
Results that will have been significant by the time you finish reading.
Markets modeled under the assumption that everyone is bluffing.
Algorithms with excellent asymptotics and zero known use.
The brain, explained confidently and without a control group.
Proofs whose margins were, regrettably, more than large enough.
Weather systems that only occur inside the abstract.
Human behavior derived, incorrectly, from first principles.
Go read it. Then send it to someone who will pretend they knew it was fake all along.
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