I'd like to read the PNAS publication reported on in the @404mediaco article linked below, but I can't find it. I found another article that actually features a full reference (https://phys.org/news/2025-11-fake-survey-ai-quietly-sway.html), but (unironically!) the DOI returns a 404. Maybe I'm not quite awake yet, but I can't help but feel it really shouldn't be this hard to get hold of academic research...
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This one? https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2415697122
Think this is a case of DOIs being cited, but not yet registered with doi.org. Have seen this before, don't know the reason either. 🤷♂️
@rupdecat @404mediaco No, in the second article it's referenced as:
Westwood, Sean J., The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2518075122.
I guess it's still embargoed. But what's the point of writing an article about a paper that normal people cannot read?
@rupdecat @ElenLeFoll @404mediaco Looks like someone at Dartmouth has gone a bit early on their press release (probably got the embargo date wrong, or PNAS gave them the wrong publication date) and the article hasn't actually been published yet.
DOIs are reserved before being fully registered, so that they can be included in the final PDF, cited in press releases etc.
If you're interested, the way this works in practice is that the DOI prefix (10.xyz up to the first slash) is allocated uniquely to the journal, so the publisher can assign any DOI within that prefix to an in-press article without registering it with Crossref until the publication, and not worry about that DOI being registered by someone else in the meantime.
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