Publications

This page lists published and accepted peer-reviewed articles.

For commissioned essays, commentary, written interviews, and non-specialist summaries, see Writing & Media.

Published

Simultaneous Submission Bans as Peer-Review Congestion Control: Why ‘Ethics’ Language Governs a Capacity-Constrained Review System

Masaya Ochiai
Journal of Scholarly Publishing (2026). Advance Access.
DOI: 10.3138/jsp-2025-0006

Plain-language note: This article examines simultaneous submission bans not merely as an ethical rule, but as a mechanism for managing congestion in a capacity-constrained peer-review system.

• Version of Record

The Third Option: integrating AI training-data licensing into scholarly publishing workflows

Masaya Ochiai
Insights: the UKSG journal 39, Article 16, 1–11 (2026).
DOI: 10.1629/uksg.776

Plain-language note: This article proposes a way to integrate AI training-data licensing into scholarly publishing workflows.

• Version of Record

Process Essentialism and the Epistemology of Academic Knowledge: Why How We Write Should Not Determine What We Know

Masaya Ochiai
Synthese 207, Article 200 (2026).
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-026-05580-3

Plain-language note: This article argues that academic knowledge claims should be evaluated primarily by publicly inspectable reasons and evidence, rather than by the private process through which the prose was produced.

• Version of Record
• Accepted Manuscript

Accepted for publication

The following sole-authored peer-reviewed articles have been accepted but are not yet listed here as published:

• Masaya Ochiai, “From Reviewable Output to Recognized Producer: Generative AI and the Validation–Recognition Gap in Science and Higher Education,” Research Evaluation. Forthcoming.
  DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvag047

  Plain-language note: This article examines how generative AI may expand the production of reviewable academic outputs faster than institutions expand recognition of new producers, creating a validation–recognition gap.

• Masaya Ochiai, “Arbitraging the Absolute: The Infinite Cube and the Pricing of Infinity: A Financial Response to W. J. T. Mitchell,” Artology: Studies in the Arts. Accepted for publication.

  Plain-language note: This article connects finance, infinity, and art theory through a response to W. J. T. Mitchell’s Infinite Cube.

Bibliographic details for forthcoming articles will be updated when they are publicly available. Accepted manuscript files are provided only where sharing is permitted by the relevant publisher policy or publishing agreement. Where available, the Version of Record should be cited.