C006 — Claim Definition¶


Research	R0031 — Plural Voice Claims Blind
Run	2026-03-27
Claim	C006

Claim as Received¶

Every major journal and conference — Nature, Science, ACM, IEEE, NeurIPS, and all five major academic publishers — has issued a formal policy prohibiting AI as an author.

Claim as Clarified¶

Every major journal and conference — Nature, Science, ACM, IEEE, NeurIPS, and all five major academic publishers — has issued a formal policy prohibiting AI as an author.

BLUF¶

All named entities have formal policies prohibiting AI authorship. Nature: LLMs do not satisfy authorship criteria. Science: AI cannot be listed as author. ACM: generative AI tools may not be listed as authors. IEEE: explicitly prohibiting AI authorship. NeurIPS: LLMs cannot be listed as authors. All five major publishers (Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, SAGE) have matching policies.

Scope¶

Domain: AI policy and attribution
Timeframe: 2022-2026
Testability: Verifiable against primary sources

Assessment Summary¶

Probability: Almost certain (95-99%)

Confidence: High

Hypothesis outcome: Hypothesis supported: H1 — All named entities confirmed to prohibit AI authorship.

Hypotheses eliminated: H2, H3 — No exceptions found among named entities.

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Status¶

Field	Value
Date created	2026-03-27
Date completed	2026-03-27
Researcher profile	None provided
Prompt version	Unified Research Standard v1.0-draft
Revisit by	2027-03-27
Revisit trigger	Policy updates or new evidence