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| <img class="banner" src="https://huggingface.co/spaces/ICSAC-Institute/README/resolve/main/cover.png" alt="ICSAC — Institute for Complexity Science and Advanced Computing" /> | |
| <h1>Institute for Complexity Science<br/>& Advanced Computing</h1> | |
| <p class="tagline"> | |
| Open peer review for independent researchers. <strong style="color:var(--ink);">Free to submit. No APCs. Ever.</strong> | |
| Accepted work runs in our annual print & ebook journal, <em>Persistence</em>. | |
| </p> | |
| <p class="meta"><a href="https://icsacinstitute.org">icsacinstitute.org</a></p> | |
| <blockquote class="stance"> | |
| <strong>Academic publishing is broken, and the gatekeepers know it.</strong> | |
| Paywalls in front, four-figure APCs in back, opaque desk-rejects in the middle, plagiarism detectors that flag a researcher’s | |
| <em>own</em> prior work as misconduct. ICSAC is the answer we built after the system told us no for the wrong reason. | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h2>Why this exists</h2> | |
| <div class="case"> | |
| <p>A peer-reviewed paper from this lab was desk-rejected by a large commercial publisher’s flagship journal on a 94% plagiarism flag — <strong>entirely from self-overlap with the author’s own prior open-access papers</strong> on the same research program. Iterative thinking, properly cited, dressed up as misconduct by a content-matching tool and rubber-stamped by an editor who didn’t read past the score.</p> | |
| <p><em>That is not peer review. That is liability-management automation wearing the costume of peer review.</em></p> | |
| </div> | |
| <p class="lede" style="margin-top:14px;"> | |
| So we built the alternative in the open. A 5-reviewer AI panel, a Review-Quality-Control audit that scores the panel itself, and a human curator with their name attached who confirms, modifies, or overrides every recommendation. | |
| <strong>The redacted review record is published alongside the accepted paper.</strong> Receipts, in public. | |
| </p> | |
| <p class="lede"> | |
| Prompts, rubrics, scoring code, citation verification, redaction layer, RQC audit — <strong>all published here, MIT-licensed</strong>. Fork it. Audit it. Run it yourself. If we get something wrong, you can see exactly where. | |
| </p> | |
| <h2>The journal — Persistence</h2> | |
| <ul class="bullets"> | |
| <li><strong>Free to submit. Free to read. No APCs — ever.</strong> No fast-track for friends, no slow-walk for outsiders.</li> | |
| <li><strong>Annual paperback + ebook.</strong> Accepted papers run in the print volume of <em>Persistence</em>, with a permanent free online record of the full review trail. First issue <strong>May 2027</strong>.</li> | |
| <li><strong>Authors retain copyright.</strong> DOI on accept via Zenodo. ORCID-gated submission, 5–10 day turnaround.</li> | |
| </ul> | |
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| <a class="cta" href="https://icsacinstitute.org/submit">→ Submit a paper</a> | |
| <a class="cta warm" href="https://icsacinstitute.org/journal">About Persistence</a> | |
| </div> | |
| <h2>On Hugging Face</h2> | |
| <a class="pin" href="https://huggingface.co/spaces/ICSAC-Institute/editorial-system"> | |
| <div class="pin-title">editorial-system</div> | |
| <div class="pin-sub">SPACE · STATIC · MIT</div> | |
| <p class="pin-desc">The open-source AI editorial pipeline that receives, reviews, and adjudicates every submission to ICSAC and to <em>Persistence</em>. Submission handler, rubrics, prompts, citation checks, redaction layer, and the audit pass that scores the panel itself.</p> | |
| </a> | |
| <p class="footnote"> | |
| One defensive exception: the prompt-injection signal in the RQC audit is withheld, to avoid teaching adversarial submissions what to evade. Everything else is in the open. | |
| </p> | |
| <h2>Affiliate with the Institute</h2> | |
| <p class="lede"> | |
| For independent researchers, postdocs between posts, retired scientists who never stopped working, and anyone whose work is real but whose letterhead is not. <strong>Annual affiliation</strong> includes: | |
| </p> | |
| <ul class="bullets"> | |
| <li><strong>A verifiable ICSAC ID</strong> in the form <code>ICSAC-NNNNN</code>, listed in our public directory.</li> | |
| <li><strong>A printable digital credential (PDF)</strong> with a QR code that resolves to your public verification page at <code>icsacinstitute.org/verify/<id></code>.</li> | |
| <li><strong>The right to list “Affiliate Researcher, ICSAC”</strong> on future works — papers, preprints, talks, conference proceedings — where appropriate and consistent with the venue’s affiliation guidelines.</li> | |
| <li><em>Persistence</em> digest newsletter, discount on the annual print, eligibility for merit-based promotion to Research Fellow.</li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p class="footnote"> | |
| Affiliation does <strong>not</strong> include review or curation rights — those are earned through demonstrated participation, not purchased. | |
| </p> | |
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| <a class="cta" href="https://icsacinstitute.org/community/membership-affiliation">→ Become an Affiliate Researcher</a> | |
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| <h2>Where the rest lives</h2> | |
| <ul class="links"> | |
| <li><span class="ico">SITE</span><span class="desc"><a href="https://icsacinstitute.org">icsacinstitute.org</a></span></li> | |
| <li><span class="ico">JRNL</span><span class="desc"><a href="https://icsacinstitute.org/journal"><em>Persistence</em></a> — annual print + ebook, no APCs</span></li> | |
| <li><span class="ico">PUB</span><span class="desc"><a href="https://icsacinstitute.org/publications">Accepted papers</a> with full review records</span></li> | |
| <li><span class="ico">SUB</span><span class="desc"><a href="https://icsacinstitute.org/submit">Submit a manuscript</a><small>Free · ORCID-gated · DOI, arXiv ID, or PDF · 5–10 day turnaround</small></span></li> | |
| <li><span class="ico">AFF</span><span class="desc"><a href="https://icsacinstitute.org/community/membership-affiliation">Affiliate Researcher</a> — annual, verifiable ID + QR-credentialed</span></li> | |
| <li><span class="ico">ID</span><span class="desc"><a href="https://icsacinstitute.org/verify">Verify a member ID</a></span></li> | |
| <li><span class="ico">DOI</span><span class="desc"><a href="https://zenodo.org/communities/icsac">Zenodo community</a></span></li> | |
| <li><span class="ico">SRC</span><span class="desc"><a href="https://github.com/ICSAC">github.com/ICSAC</a></span></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <h2>Support the work</h2> | |
| <p class="lede"> | |
| ICSAC runs on direct contributions from people who think rigorous, accessible peer review is worth keeping alive outside the gatekept circuit. | |
| <strong>No grants, no university overhead, no APCs — so the math has to come from somewhere.</strong> | |
| </p> | |
| <div class="cta-row"> | |
| <a class="cta stripe" href="https://icsacinstitute.org/community/donate">→ Donate · Support · Sponsor</a> | |
| <a class="cta warm" href="https://manifund.org/projects/icsac-ai-assisted-peer-review-for-independent-researchers">Back us on Manifund</a> | |
| </div> | |
| <p class="footnote"> | |
| One-time donation, annual Supporter (name on /supporters), or annual Sponsor (logo + link). All run through Stripe at <a href="https://icsacinstitute.org/community/donate">icsacinstitute.org/community/donate</a>. ICSAC is not a registered 501(c)(3); contributions are not tax-deductible. | |
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| <a href="mailto:info@icsacinstitute.org">info@icsacinstitute.org</a> | |
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