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Archives: research integrity

Guest Post — Reputation and Publication Volume at MDPI and Frontiers

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?

  • By Christos Petrou
  • Sep 18, 2023
  • 41 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Publishers, Don’t Use AI Detection Tools!

The challenges offered by artificial intelligence require a different approach than that seen for plagiarism detection.

  • By Avi Staiman
  • Sep 14, 2023
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Science and Truth, Stanford President and Student Journalism Edition

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.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Aug 9, 2023
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The Intelligence Revolution: What’s Happening and What’s to Come in Generative AI

An update on how generative AI has progressed and how it has been applied to research publishing processes since ChatGPT was released, looking at business, application, technology, and ethical aspects of generative AI.

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Jul 20, 2023
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Peer Review Week 2023 to Focus on Peer Review and the Future of Publishing

Peer Review Week is an annual global event exploring and celebrating the essential role of peer review. This year’s Peer Review Week theme is “Peer Review and the Future of Publishing.”

  • By Roohi Ghosh, Lindsay Morton
  • Jul 17, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Ask the Co-Chairs: A Look at the 2023 SSP Annual Meeting

Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen sat down with the Co-Chairs of the SSP’s Annual Meeting Program Committee to learn more about the event and what we can look forward to.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • May 19, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

A Serious Game for Scholarly Publishers: The STM Trends 2027 Helps Publishers Level Up

@TAC_NISO describes STM Association 2027 Trends report released Thursday. It helps people grasp the direction and impact of technology changes in our community so they can “level up”

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Apr 28, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Addressing Paper Mills and a Way Forward for Journal Security

Wiley’s Jay Flynn discusses the impact that paper mills had on Hindawi’s publishing program and how all stakeholders must collaborate to address behaviors that undermine research integrity.

  • By Jay Flynn
  • Apr 4, 2023
  • 26 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post: Start at the Beginning – The Need for ‘Research Practice’ Training

Danny Kingsley suggests that research integrity begins with the training researchers receive at university. Achieving Open Research and increasing reproducibility requires systematic research training that focuses specifically on research practice.

  • By Danny Kingsley
  • Feb 23, 2023
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Research Integrity and Reproducibility are Two Aspects of the Same Underlying Issue – A Report from STM Week 2022

Observations on reproducibility and research integrity from London STM Week

  • By Phill Jones
  • Dec 14, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Integrity and Trust in Peer Reviewed Literature: Will Journals Be Alone in Doing the Heavy Lifting?

We round out Peer Review Week with a guest post by Erin Landis, Meghan McDevitt, and Jason Roberts of Origin Editorial reporting on the 2022 Peer Review Congress.

  • By Erin Landis, Meghan McDevitt, Jason Roberts
  • Sep 23, 2022
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Does Trust in Research Begin with Trust in Peer Review?

Kicking off Peer Review Week 2022: Does trust in research begin with trust in peer review across the whole ecosystem, and what does that look like for different communities and stakeholders?

  • By Karin Wulf, Alice Meadows, Tim Vines
  • Sep 19, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Ask an Editor-in-Chief/Surgeon/Researcher/Author/Reviewer: Is Research Integrity Possible without Peer Review?

One more answer to the question, Is Research Integrity Possible without Peer Review? Today’s response is from journal Editor-in-Chief and surgeon, D. Robert Siemens.

  • By Jennifer Regala, D. Robert Siemens
  • Sep 16, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Ask the Chefs: Is Research Integrity Possible without Peer Review?

Continuing the run-up to this year’s Peer Review Week (September 19-23) today you’ll hear the Chefs’ answers to the question: Is research integrity possible without peer review?

  • By Alice Meadows, Rick Anderson, David Smith, Haseeb Irfanullah, Tim Vines, David Crotty
  • Sep 15, 2022
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Tribalism, Fraud, and the Loss of Perspective in Alzheimer’s Disease Research

A recent data falsification scandal in Alzheimer’s research raises new questions about perverse incentives in the culture and practice of science.

  • By Phill Jones
  • Aug 2, 2022
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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