R0029/2026-03-27/Q003/H2¶
Statement¶
Major venues have not issued formal policies, or policies vary too much to constitute a norm.
Status¶
Current: Eliminated
Every venue examined has a formal, published policy. Nature, Science, ACM, IEEE, NeurIPS, ICML, Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and SAGE all have explicit positions. The prohibition on AI authorship is completely uniform. While disclosure requirements vary, they all exist.
Supporting Evidence¶
No evidence supports the absence of policies.
Contradicting Evidence¶
| Evidence | Summary |
|---|---|
| SRC01-E01 | Nature has formal policy since January 2023 |
| SRC02-E01 | Science has formal policy, revised November 2023 |
| SRC03-E01 | ACM has formal policy |
| SRC04-E01 | IEEE has formal guidelines since April 2024 |
| SRC05-E01 | NeurIPS has formal LLM policy |
| SRC06-E01 | All Big 5 publishers have formal policies |
Reasoning¶
H2 is comprehensively eliminated. The question is not whether policies exist (they do, universally) but how consistent they are (H1 vs. H3).
Relationship to Other Hypotheses¶
H2 is the null hypothesis. The evidence eliminates it completely, leaving H1 and H3 as the competing characterizations.