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"A Delphi survey on attitudes to serious research misconduct: Exploring convergence vs. polarization of views of research “sleuths” and research integrity experts"

@deevybee.bsky.social

→ doi.org/10.1080/0898...

#ResearchIntegrity
#ResearchSleuths
#ResearchFraud

Scientific fraud: analysis of a growing phenomenon Scientific fraud: analysis of a growing phenomenon – Read the column on Polytechnique Insights

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#Fraud #FraudDetection #ResearchFraud #Science #Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Retractions #PaperMills

Sexual misconduct in science may not face same penalties as research fraud Science strives to produce reliable knowledge, advance our understanding of the world, and ultimately drive progress. This pursuit depends not only on individual excellence but also on collaboration, ...

Sexual misconduct in science may not face same penalties as research fraud

#SexualMisconduct #ResearchFraud #WCRI2026 #WCRI

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Could fake science be poisoning everything we trust?

With fraudulent research multiplying faster than retractions, can science protect its credibility before trust collapses? @PNASNews

Article: thesciencematters.org/how-fake-res...
Research: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#ethics #fakeresearch #papermills #pnas #researchfraud #retraction

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds

#BiologicalWeapons #Deskilling #Research #ResearchFraud #ArtificialIntelligence #CRISPR
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...

A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is ...

Annual global scientific activity captured by WoS as measured by the number of actively publishing journals, the number of journals deindexed annually by WoS, the number of journals with retractions, the number of journals with PubPeer comments, and the number of journals with suspected paper mill products. It is visually apparent that deindexing now occurs at a level far below the level of occurrence of journals publishing suspected paper mill products. These patterns hold for Scopus and MEDLINE. R.A.K. Richardson, S.S. Hong, J.A. Byrne, T. Stoeger, & L.A.N. Amaral, The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (32) e2420092122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420092122 (2025).

A powerful new study, Richardson et al. @pnas.org reveals the scale of systematic research fraud: fake papers are doubling every 1.5 years - ten times faster than real science! Retractions and deindexing can't keep up: 📄 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #ResearchFraud #Integrity #PaperMills #AcademicEthics

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds

nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...

#ScientificIntegrity #ResearchEthics #AcademicFraud
#ScienceMatters #FakeScience #TrustInScience
#StopFakeResearch #ReformPublishing #ScienceUnderThreat #ResearchFraud #ScientificMisconduct

Uncovering the fraudsters and their schemes responsible for polluting the scientific literature Analysis claims poor quality articles containing faked data are in danger of overwhelming journals

Uncovering the fraudsters and their schemes responsible for polluting the scientific literature #Science #ScienceHistory #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchFraud #LiteraturePollution

Journal plagued with problematic papers, likely from paper mills, pauses submissions The halt will let Taylor & Francis focus on checking Bioengineered’s papers for fraudulent works and paid authorships

#researchfraud #papermills #academicpublishing @science.org
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🧑‍🔬 New in the Scientists Forum: #ResearchFraud and problematic images are undermining #SystematicReviews.

Jenny P. Berrío and @okalliokoski.bsky.social identified issues with 19% of studies for a review on #PreclinicalDepression.

➡️ doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.70077

#ResearchIntegrity #PaperMills

Skepticism surrounds the paper's data - called "too clean." Doubts raised about a 2nd-year PhD student achieving such scale & implausible innovation gains reported. Red flags cited include questionable IRB claims. #ResearchFraud 2/6

Visual from COPE with various red flags that indicate a paper might be fraudulent.

Great overview of COPE #researchintegrity red flags to help identify #researchfraud from AIP Publishing's Allegra Torres, research integrity lead.

Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: the firms that buy science publications and turn them rogue

nature.com/articles/d41...

#PredatoryJournals #AcademicPublishing #ScientificIntegrity #PaperMills #JournalHijacking #ResearchFraud #OpenAccessAbuse #PublishOrPerish #ScienceUnderAttack #AcademicScam

Unreliable Biomedicine: A Book Review A new book on biomedical research sounds the alarm on its replication crisis.

"Among the world’s most cited biomedical scientists, with 'more than thirty years of direct experience of biomedical research,' Szabo blows the lid off his field."—Christopher Lane, Psychology Today buff.ly/K8ItxJi #ResearchFraud #ResearchEthics #ReproducibilityCrisis #BiomedicalResearch

Jason Hu on LinkedIn: 最高院举行《关于以高质量审判服务保障科技创新的意见》新闻发布会_保护_司法_三中全会 Great move by China government to crackdown paper mills: On January 6, the Supreme People’s Court of China held a press conference to release the Opinions of…

The Chinese government is cracking down on #ResearchFraud, including “strict punishment for misconduct such as fabricating or falsifying research findings; buying, selling, ghostwriting...; buying, selling, falsifying, or tampering of experimental data; and other forms of academic misconduct.”

Bogus scientific papers are enriching fraudsters and slowing lifesaving medical research The world’s library of scientific papers is becoming contaminated as fraudsters use ‘paper mills’ to game scholarly publishing for profit.

Bogus scientific papers are enriching fraudsters and slowing lifesaving medical research ‣ @us.theconversation.com · #researchfraud

PAPER MILLS EXPLODE The proportion of scientific articles with close textual similarities to papermill products is increasing.

Had no idea how large this problem is!
Fraudulent research pollutes the literature, slows down scientific progress, delays the discovery of therapies and reduces public trust in science.
Created by pressure on scientists to publish.
#Medsky #science #MedicalResearch #ResearchFraud #Papermills

Elisabeth Bik, expert in scientific integrity: ‘We need to slow down scientific publishing’ The Dutch microbiologist has been voluntarily searching for duplicate, erroneous or retouched academic images for more than 10 years and warning universities and scientific journals about it

"Elisabeth Bik, expert in scientific integrity: ‘We need to slow down scientific publishing’"

Interview that El País conducted with @elisabethbik.bsky.social about her work. English version.

english.elpais.com/science-tech...

#ScientificPublishing #SciPub #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchFraud

Shocking new form of #ResearchFraud : #FakeCitations are for sale for US$ 6 - #FakePapers boosting #CitationScores
@WCRIFoundation @NRIN_Integrity @C0PE @RetractionWatch @JAByrneSci @MicrobiomDigest @peerrevcongress...