This 💯! Especially important if there is ever a #researchintegrity or #publicationintegrity challenge or investigation

"Our institutions signal a clear preference for quantity over quality" ➡️ it's time to drop speedy but low-quality and weak science, and steer the weel towards robust, reliable, but slow science -aka degrowth 😊✊📉💪

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Authors recognize that majority of guest editors use their power responsibly,

suggest that action by publishers and EiCs at a relatively small number of journals would solve most special issue endogeny abuses,

stress the importance of having a clear and enforced policy 2/2

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The Issue with Special Issues: when Guest Editors Publish in Support of Self The recent exceptional growth in the number of special issues has led to the largest delegation of editorial power in the history of scientific publishing. Has this power been used responsibly? In thi...

Endogeny: the practice of a guest editor publishing a non-editorial article in their own special issue

Important ‘special issue endogeny’ dataset of >100,000 guest-edited collections with nearly 1 million papers has been created and analysed, with some jaw-dropping results 1/2
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Important to add that they also say:

“Many journals (including those outside ranking systems) continue to conduct rigorous peer review and provide valuable venues for knowledge exchange, including in underrepresented fields and regions”.

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The junkification of research - Carl Rhodes, Martina K Linnenluecke, 2025 This essay considers the emergent phenomenon of ‘junkification’ in academic research publishing. The term junkification was originally coined to describe the in...

Very good essay

@profcarlrhodes.bsky.social & Martina Linnenluecke describe a set of overlapping trends in academic research publication reinforcing one another to create “a downward spiral into junkification”

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Perspective on #ErrorDetection and #PublicationIntegrity from the 2025 FAIRS conference @deevybee.bsky.social
"The problem of wrongly identified and non-verifiable nucleotide sequences and cell lines in research papers, or how to study things that may not exist" journals.lww.com/anesthesia-a...
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Linguistic Bias and the Science Lost in Translation | ASM.org Explore how linguistic bias subtly reinforces privilege in science by constraining scientific dissemination.

How does linguistic bias reinforce privilege in science? #AppEnvMicro Editor in Chief @microgem.bsky.social offers insights and discusses how reviewers can identify it to support a more equitable review process. Read the article: asm.social/2Hp #COPE #PublicationIntegrity

"The purpose of retraction is to correct the literature and ensure its integrity, not to punish the authors."
Howard Browman, COPE Trustee, expands on this and shares updates to the latest guidelines.
👉 Read editorial: https://ow.ly/59il50XbVn1
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I'm very grateful to have been invited to present on #ResearchIntegrity at the upcoming #ESHRE2025 @eshre.bsky.social conference in Paris on Mon 30 June 2025. If you'll be there & would like to discuss #PublicationIntegrity in reproduction, embryology, or any other topic, please drop me a line 🧪

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An image from a scanning electron microscope with some unexpected duplications, highlighted by colored boxes.

Some within-image duplications in a 2015 Journal of Materials Science (Springer Nature) article, cited 33 times.

Author response: "...any perceived duplication likely arises from natural structural similarities within the sample."

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Red and yellow image of cells. Some duplicated regions are indicated with boxes of various colors.

Red and yellow image of cells. Some duplicated regions are indicated with boxes of various colors.

Red and yellow image of cells. Some duplicated regions are indicated with boxes of various colors.

Copious duplications in cell culture images. 2020 article in Elsevier journal Polymer Testing, cited 131 times. Authors from Iran, Canada, Malaysia and Norway. #AcademicIntegrity #PublicationIntegrity #ImageForensics

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