United2Act Against Paper Mills: Fighting Fraud that Corrupts the Scholarly Record
Fraud is undermining the integrity of the scholarly record. United2Act is striking back at paper mills.
Fraud is undermining the integrity of the scholarly record. United2Act is striking back at paper mills.
Attribution has many virtues, but among them it can make visible the vast infrastructure of research for a public largely unaware or unconcerned with how much hard-won knowledge, including creative endeavor, that research has facilitated.
Should the authors’ institution make decisions regarding authorship disputes on a paper?
How do we define, track, and measure trust in scholarly publishing?
Balancing the anxiety and the excitement over the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in scholarly publishing.
A report of the Chef’s panel on AI, Open content, and research integrity during the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Accountability is at the center of leadership. We must hold people, policies and structures to account and if we are struggling with tackling the hard questions, are we really doing the work?
How do we strike a balance between humans and AI to improve peer review? We’ve interviewed a few publishing experts who specialize in human and AI ethical, equitable, and sustainable publishing solutions to share their thoughts on the future of peer review.
Compared to their peak levels, publication volume has declined at MDPI by 27% and at Frontiers by 36%. What’s behind these declines, and how do they reflect the inherent risk in the APC open access model and different approaches to reputation management?
An appeals court has ruled that it is unconstitutional for the government to require deposit of published works in the Library of Congress
Could the failure of a journal to visibly correct known errors in a publication, thereby propagating false information, be considered disinformation?
While higher rates of endogeny can help indexes identify journals being used for self-promotion, nepotism, or other unethical ends, endogeny itself should not be equated with them and can be the result of a narrow or new field of research.
A world famous scientist and university president brought down by a student journalist’s investigative reporting. But the big story is how we fund and reward ethical research.
The copyright warning notice prescribed by the US Copyright Office misleads library patrons about their fair use rights, and must change.
Will artificial intelligence fatally undermine the integrity of scholarly publishing? A formal debate from the annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.