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r/PublishOrPerish

5.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 926 upvotes, which works out to 166 per 1,000 members.

166peak upvotes per 1,000 members
5.6Kmembers
926best post
81most comments
135posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

52% 21% 17%
Link 52% Text 21% Question 17% Image 7% Gallery 1% Video 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

🔥 Hot Topic 23 🎢 Publishing Journey 14 👀 Peer Review 7 🫥 Retractions 4 🙃 Meme 4 🎉 Success Story 1 Retractions 🫥 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Researchers hide “positive review only” prompts in papers. Yes, really.

↑ 926 💬 59 link 2025

All US federal research grants frozen for political review

↑ 589 💬 30 link 2025

What’s stopping you from publishing null results? oh right, everything.

↑ 414 💬 24 link 2025

Protest

↑ 334 💬 30 image 2025

The Royal Society just realized the system might be broken

↑ 298 💬 20 link 2025

Trump pulls $20M in contracts from Springer Nature over “woke” science

↑ 289 💬 46 link 2025

Peer review is broken and now grant applicants are reviewing each other

↑ 276 💬 78 link 2025

More UK universities walk away from Elsevier deal

↑ 253 💬 38 link 2026

RFK Jr tried to get a vaccine study retracted, the journal refused

↑ 242 💬 14 link 2025

A new BMJ study indicates that 10% of cancer research papers could be fraudulent.

↑ 232 💬 30 link 2026

Communities its size

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/PublishOrPerish, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.