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Archives: research ethics

Guest Post — Re-imagining Scholarly Integrity: The “Continuum of Consensus” Quality Control System

Today’s guest blogger proposes the “Continuum of Consensus” as a solution to shore up research integrity, peer review, and the public trust in scholarly research.

  • By Ch. Mahmood Anwar
  • Feb 19, 2026
  • 18 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post – Code Plagiarism and AI Create New Challenges for Publishing Integrity

This post explores author, reviewer, and publisher ethics and responsibilities related to the use of AI in coding and publishing research software.

  • By Daniel S. Katz, Mohammad Hosseini, Scott C. Edmunds
  • Aug 28, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — New Directions Seminar: Reverse Roundtables Kept the Post-Lunch Conversations Going!

What are the new directions in scholarly publishing? Check out the unique “reverse roundtable” discussions at SSP’s New Directions seminar!

  • By Matt Cannon, Heather Staines, Jordan Schilling
  • Jul 23, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Know Better, Do Better: Learned Publishing Reflects on DEIA in Scholarly Communications

The first 2023 issue of Learned Publishing reflects on how to make lasting, meaningful improvements to our industry’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA).

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Feb 7, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Loaded Dice — The New Research Conundrums Posed by Mechanical Turk

The use of Mechanical Turk in research may generate misleading data and false information. Do we need to guard against such mechanical methodologies?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Feb 20, 2015
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

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