"Exploratory Study of Students’ Virus and Vaccine Concepts and Sources of Information" doi.org/10.1080/0021...
...which investigates "Spread of Misinformation" is itself struck by Vickers' curse [...for further reading on that, see doi.org/10.1007/s111... ]

...crazy times for #ResearchIntegrity

👉China discontinues prominent journal ranking list
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

...something is moving 💪

#ResearchIntegrity #ChemSky #CompChemSky #PiSky

Retraction Watch testifies in Congressional hearing on scientific publishing Retraction Watch managing editor Kate Travis (center) testified April 15 in a hearing before the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. Othe…

👇Relevant Step to raise Public Awareness on the "pitfalls of 'publish or perish' and how an overreliance on metrics has incentivized shortcuts in research and publishing"

#ResearchIntegrity #ChemSky #CompChemSky #PiSky

retractionwatch.com/2026/04/15/r...

Heliyon' retraction history👇 is a 'perfect' example for the "Bullshit Asymmetry Principle" (Brandolini's law), en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandol...

Will Elsevier & Co ever learn?
When will the Scientific Community take measures?

👉Quality over Quantity #ResearchIntegrity #CompChemSky #ChemSky #PiSky

👇...right, but 'official' rankings (like THE...) are so heavily gamed, that they are similarly meaningless!

...and to call those 'officially' listed = "elite" sounds like a bizarre joke for many...
👉 compare with the 'Research Integrity Risk Index' sites.aub.edu.lb/lmeho/ri2/

#ResearchIntegrity

Guest post: Should universities investigate questionable papers students and faculty wrote elsewhere? Be-Art/iStock I am a research ethicist and often get asked by my university to investigate when potential concerns are raised about our staff or students. One example involved the recent case of th…

👇University View on Research Integrity Violations: relevant points indeed...

👉BUT there is something more to do for institutions:

Stop Counting Numbers and Boycott Rankings - these are the main incentives for citation gaming

#ResearchIntegrity

👉our new paper is out:
"Reversible Color Switching of Bright Phosphorescence in Purely Organic Materials for Advanced Data Encryption"

lead by lsa.umich.edu/chem/people/... and kwonlab.snu.ac.kr

read more:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#PiSky #ChemSky #MaterialsScience

👇...good analysis of University Rankings - being one of the main Incentives which fuel the Crisis in #ResearchIntegrity

...daily nonsense/non-science, again in a 'special issue' published at Springer-Nature 👇
doi.org/10.1007/s112...

...and the lead author is 'gifted' with 2100 cites/year

...our field #CompChemSky #PiSky is drowning in this mess

#ResearchIntegrity

Predatory Journals' "invitations" are becoming "Trumpish"👇

#ResearchIntegrity

Sci. Rep. is in the "Top" 20 for Retractions 👇 for all the junk they published...
They would be probably be in "Top" 5 if they took 'responsibility' serious, and not only retracting if obvious fraud cannot be denied anymore

'Scientific Reports' is Nature's 'clever' strategy to skim not only the top of scientific production but also the very profitable bottom (zero-science, citation cartels, paper mills, AI-junk)

...overgeneralization will not help

🤦‍♂️Not again: Nature's "Scientific Reports" is spamming me exactly in the same way as all the predatory journals out there...

...the 'Guest Editors' not even made an effort to look up the names of the "Dear Professor", nor their expertise

#ChemSky #CompChemSky #PiSky #ResearchIntegrity

👉JunkAI-generated "Review Paper" invasion, mocking Science...

👇 here an example from #CompChemSky #PiSky #Chemsky

...enjoy the rest of this "masterpiece": doi.org/10.1134/S001... - once more at @springernature.com 🫤

#ResearchIntegrity

'invited' to review for Springer's MDPI-clon "Discover ..." 🤦‍♂️

👉 Publishers deliberately invent journals to skim the impertinent profits with (AI-generated) papers mimicking science - all on public costs...

How long will Funding Bodies play this game? 🤔

#ResearchIntegrity #ChemSky #CompChemSky

👉 Retraction 'Vintage' Charts:
2026 will become a "great" year for paper retractions at Elsevier! 🥂🍾

[extracted from ScienceDirect; keyword "retraction notice"]
#ResearchIntegrity

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.

👉Five Ways to Spot when a Paper is Fraud
...sleuths tips at @nature.com #researchintegrity

Stop wasting my time! AI Agents Infiltrate Scholarly Publishing As Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for Educational Integrity, I rant a bit about the rise of AI-generated manuscripts in academic publishing. While acknowledging potential benefits of …

Stop wasting my time! AI Agents Infiltrate Scholarly Publishing

#ScholarlyPublishing #GenAI #AI #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI

@saraheaton.bsky.social

drsaraheaton.com/2026/02/06/s...

👇Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities has organized a Round Table on
"Artificial Intelligence and the Fraud Industry in Scientific Publishing" #ResearchIntegrity

watch at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w0E...

16th Edition of the European Symposium on Computing pi-Conjugated Compounds (CPiC), organized by Silvio Osella, CeNT, Univ. of Warsaw cpic16.cent.uw.edu.pl
#CompChemSky

Thanks again, Silvio, for the great organization!

Speaking about #ResearchIntegrity at CeNT, Univ. Warsaw. Thanks again, Silvio Osella, for the kind invitation, and all participants for our discussion!

cent.uw.edu.pl/cent-seminar...

Seminar on #ResearchIntegrity, Faculty of Chemistry, Univ. Torun www.chem.umk.pl/wiadomosci/?...

Thanks again, Anna Kaczmarek-Kędziera & Marta Ziegler-Borowska, for the kind invitation, and the audience on-site & online for the intense & thoughtful discussion.

It was great to talk about #ResearchIntegrity at the
Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry
@vwscc.bsky.social #CompChemSky

Thanks again to VWSCC - in particular Sandra Gomez @quimicafisica1.bsky.social - for the kind invitation, and the audience for the thoughtful discussion!

Miles de científicos hinchan su currículum con estudios autopublicados que cuestan millones de euros de dinero público Un análisis de 100.000 números especiales de revistas académicas revela que uno de cada ocho está lleno de artículos de autobombo del propio editor, sobre todo en la editorial MDPI

👉Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of euros of public money

👇by @manuelansede.bsky.social in @elpais.com

coverage of "The Issue with Special Issues: when Guest Editors Publish in Support of Self" doi.org/10.48550/arX...

#ResearchIntegrity

In Memoriam: The Academic Journal

#ResearchIntegrity

...just seen on PubPeer👇

"Happy Electrons", "Nobbling Cations", "Artificial Atoms" & "Elation Bohr's Energy" ?
...this is not only "Revolutionizing Waste Water Cleaning" but Chemistry & Physics 😱 #ChemSky

👉Springer Nature @springernature.com what are you doing to #ResearchIntegrity ?

👉Science in (AI-assisted) buzzword times:
"Revolutionizing" appears 6450 times in Titles of Scientific Papers👇
...essentially all (5592 = 87%) since 2023

Modesty is part of #ResearchIntegrity

Dinero gastado, tiempo invertido y menos confianza en el sistema: cómo las cuatro grandes editoriales "drenan" la ciencia La deriva de las últimas décadas ha otorgado el control sobre la ciencia a los grandes grupos editoriales privados, sostiene un estudio que indica que Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley y Taylor & Franc...

👇on the extraordinary profit margins of scientific publishers, all on public costs, now also covered by El Diario (Spain) @eldiario.es

👉public pressure = essential element for #ResearchIntegrity

no, I wrote 3‰, which is 0.3% !
This is obtained by:
250,000 (flagged papers on PubPeer) ÷ 76,500,000 (total no. of papers) = 0.33%
...the total no. of papers, I extracted from Scopus