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FORCE11 and COPE Release Recommendations on Data Publishing Ethics for Publishers and Repositories: A Discussion with the Working Group Leadership

FORCE11 and COPE release recommendations on data publishing ethics for researchers, publishers, and editors.

  • By Todd A Carpenter, Matt Cannon
  • Oct 20, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Peer Review and Humanities Online: An Interview with Daryle Williams about the Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation

Key insights on how peer review functions for a new journal, handling data on individual lives of people enslaved in the historical slave trade, that serves both academic and public audiences.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Sep 21, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Peer Review and Research Integrity: Five Reasons to be Cheerful

Chris Graf (and colleagues) present five reasons to be cheerful about research integrity and peer review.

  • By Chris Graf
  • Sep 20, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 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

We Asked the Community: Is Research Integrity Possible without Peer Review?

For an early start on Peer Review Week, we reached out to the SSP community to ask “Is research integrity possible without peer review?” 

  • By Jennifer Regala, Michael Groth, MIchael Casp
  • Sep 14, 2022
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 12 mins

Guest Post — Has Peer Review Created a Toxic Culture in Academia? Moving from ‘Battering’ to ‘Bettering’ in the Review of Academic Research

Avi Staiman suggests revamping the peer review process to make it less about tearing down the work of others, and more about helping authors improve their papers.

  • By Avi Staiman
  • Aug 16, 2022
  • 31 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 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

Announcing Peer Review Week 2022: An Interview with the Co-Chairs

The theme for Peer Review Week 2022 is Research Integrity: Creating and supporting trust in research – learn more in today’s interview with co-chairs Danielle Padua and Jayashree Rajagopalan

  • By Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, Tim Vines, Karin Wulf
  • Jul 7, 2022
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Building Stronger Chains Together: Keeping Preprints Connected to the Scholarly Record

In the global supply chain of scholarly communications, we share a responsibility for accurate metadata that represents the publication lifecycle — from preprint to version of record, and everything in between.

  • By Michele Avissar-Whiting
  • Jun 7, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The New STM Integrity Hub

Interview with Joris van Rossum  and Hylke Koers about the new STM Integrity Hub service launch and its potential future developments.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • May 3, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Fraud and Peer Review: An Interview with Melinda Baldwin

Robert Harington and Melinda Baldwin discuss whether peer review has a role to play in uncovering scientific fraud.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 24, 2022
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Research Integrity: Ensuring Trust in Global Research   

A look at developments in research integrity, and the attempt to build a universal culture of ethical and responsible practice in research as well as systems within the overall research ecosystem for such a culture to flourish.

  • By Natalie Simon
  • Feb 10, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Does the World Need an Academic Integrity Awareness Index? An Interview with Helen Zhang

An interview with Helen Zhang on the proposal for an Academic Integrity Awareness Index.

  • By Tao Tao
  • Nov 2, 2021
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Is Scientific Communication Fit for Purpose?

Roger Schonfeld argues that openness and politicization together have enabled public trust in science to erode. And science is insufficiently trustworthy. The scholarly communication sector must not ignore this situation.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Nov 1, 2021
  • 23 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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