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

Rebuttal Experiments Are Breaking Peer Review Right Now A lot of people in AI quietly agree on one thing about rebuttal experiments: they make their papers better. More checks, more baselines, more datasets, what’s not to like? Except a growing number of authors are saying the opposite: rebuttal experiments are making their papers worse. TL;DR Rebuttal experiments mostly satisfy reviewer psychology, not scientific necessity, randomized trials show they only weakly affect decisions.

Rebuttal experiments are quietly breaking peer review — warping science to appease reviewers, not improve truth. Read the rebuttal. #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #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

International multi-stakeholder consensus statement on patient, carer and public involvement to enhance clinical trial integrity The recent update of the Declaration of Helsinki has emphasized community engagement and research integrity. Patient, carer and public involvement (PCPI) throughout the research lifecycle of random...

📝 Latest Article Alert! 📝

"International multi-stakeholder consensus statement on patient, carer and public involvement to enhance clinical trial integrity"

Khalid Saeed Khan et al.

→ doi.org/10.1080/0898...

#ResearchIntegrity
#ClinicalTrial
#MedicalScience

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

#ResearchIntegrity

We're celebrating amazing reviewers and love playing a part in their #PeerReview journey! 🎉 Explore all recipients of this award 👉 https://ow.ly/9IKx50YwmtN
#ResearchIntegrity

For open research to work, research institutions and publishers need to collaborate - LSE Impact The unique expertise of research institutions and publishers mean that any resolution to research integrity issues can only be achieved through collaboration.

💥New post | For open research to work, research institutions and publishers need to collaborate

✍️ Heidi Ormstad, @rnls.bsky.social & @roeggen.bsky.social

#AcademicPublishing #OpenResearch #ResearchIntegrity

🌟 Today we celebrate our annual Outstanding Reviewer Awards across our journals. A huge congratulations to more than 1,600 recipients highlighting the quality, quantity and timeliness of reports they completed. You're all amazing! 🎉
👉https://ow.ly/LM2850YwlHq
#ResearchIntegrity #PeerReview

The Lancet retracts half-century-old unsigned commentary on talc for undisclosed industry ties SewcreamStudio/iStock The Lancet has retracted a 49-year-old unsigned commentary on the safety of cosmetic talc after two researchers discovered the author was a paid consultant to Johnson & Jo…

The Lancet retracts half-century-old unsigned commentary on talc for undisclosed industry ties

#Lancet #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI

retractionwatch.com/2026/03/25/l...

Glossary Definitions of publication ethics terms used by COPE.

Useful glossary from @publicationethics.bsky.social provides brief definitions and explanations of publication ethics terms used on the COPE website and in its guidance materials. Will be helpful to many.

#PublicationEthics #ResearchPublication #ScholarlyPublishing #ResearchIntegrity

Trust, Transparency, and Accountability: The Three Pillars of Ethical Scholarly Publishing Trust, Transparency, and Accountability: The Three Pillars of Ethical Scholarly Publishing

🌐 Can Ethical Standards Keep Pace with Rapid Changes in Scholarly Publishing?

🔗 Read the article:

tsp.scione.com/cms/fulltext...

#ScholarlyPublishing #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicResearch #OpenAccess #EthicsInResearch

New Features For Reporting Article Corrections and Retractions At Scholastica, we want to make it easier for journals to report updates to articles swiftly and transparently. So, we've just released new support for issuing corrections and retractions via the…

Did you know Scholastica's OA Publishing Platform now integrates with Crossmark from @crossref.bsky.social?

Learn more: buff.ly/QQilWsz

#SciencePublishing #ResearchIntegrity

Research integrity is locked into an arms race with agentic AI slop - LSE Impact Advances in agentic AI combined with increasingly large reserves of openly accessibly and machine-readable data are creating a perfect storm for the mass-production of AI authored research papers. Adr...

👀ICYMI: "For some datasets, we estimate that the amount of mass-manufactured research now outnumbers legitimate research by ten to one"

@aidybarnett.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing #OpenData #ResearchIntegrity

Hallucinated references are passing peer review at top AI conferences and a new open tool wants to fix that Fake citations are slipping past peer review at top AI conferences, and commercial LLMs can't spot the fakes they generate. A new open-source tool called CiteAudit allegedly catches what GPT, Gemini,…

Hallucinated citations passing peer review at top AI conferences. An open-source tool detects them at 97.2% accuracy. GPT-5.2 flags 48% of real citations as fake. Open-source is winning this one.

the-decoder.com/hallucinated...

#ResearchIntegrity #AIinResearch

📣 SCIFOR Workshop at ICIP 2026

SCIFOR aims to bridge the gap between AI researchers and scientific integrity.

Call for Papers
Submissions due: May 13, 2026
Learn more at: sites.google.com/view/scifor-2026

#ScientificIntegrity #ImageForensics #DigitalForensics #ResearchIntegrity #ICIP2026

Hallucinated References: Five Excuses for Academic Misconduct When I proposed rejecting papers with hallucinated references, the support was overwhelming. But the critical voices revealed five argument patterns: from AI hype through TINA rhetoric to nihilism.

Hallucinated References: Five Excuses for Academic Misconduct: dorotheabaur.ch/en/texts-and...

#AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Retractions #PaperMills #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Toward Responsible Use of Research Content in Generative Al - STM Association Toward Responsible Use of Research Content in Generative Al

ICYMI: @stmassoc.bsky.social seeks input on its working brief, "Toward Responsible Use of Research Content in Generative AI."

Learn more and share your feedback: buff.ly/2aOm29P

#ScholarlyPublishing #ResearchIntegrity

A mockup of an infographic poster that's supposed to show statistics and strategies in relation to chess openings. On close inspection, it's obviously AI nonsense. Squares are wrongly labelled. Arrows point in meaningless directions, and run contrary to how pieces actually move.

If you know anything about chess, this poster on Etsy is as funny as those fraudulent rat balls.
www.etsy.com/au/listing/4...
#chess #researchintegrity via u/MinuteRegular716

Follow MAPOU Séraphin for research, methods, and tools in infectious disease epidemiology — starting with tuberculosis.
#Epidemiology #Tuberculosis #Mentorship #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicScience #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #GenomicEpi

🤦‍♂️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

Guest Post — From Language Barrier to AI Bias: The Non-Native Speaker’s Dilemma in Scientific Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen For decades, EAL researchers have faced systemic disadvantages in publishing. AI writing tools promise relief, yet, they also bring new risks into science.

@paeditorial.bsky.social's  Claudia Taubenheim, explores a challenge that doesn’t receive enough attention: how language-based desk rejection can unintentionally silence valuable research.

https://f.mtr.cool/tedzvcomwa

#ScholarlyPublishing #EALResearchers #ResearchIntegrity

Thanks to reviewers, 2026

Honoured to be acknowledged by DIGITAL HEALTH / SAGE as a reviewer for 2025. Peer review is quiet work, but essential to research quality and integrity. Grateful to contribute.

doi.org/10.1177/2055...

#PeerReview #DigitalHealth #ResearchIntegrity

Valichord: Harmony from Dissonance Distributed validation infrastructure for computational biomedical research

Great piece by @samturner330849 on my approach to fixing the reproducibility problem in computational science. Worth a read 👇
happeningscommunity.substack.com/p/valichord-harmony-from-dissonance
#OpenScience #Metascience #Holochain #ResearchIntegrity

Ninety-seven ignored: A personal reflection on the hidden struggles of an academic editor Delays in editorial decisions are a frequent source of frustration for authors, yet the hidden challenges faced by editors remain largely unrecognized. Reflecting on my experience serving on the…

Check this essay by an academic editor in India who sent 97 reviewer invitations per manuscript and got 3 acceptances. Voluntary, unpaid work. He burned out and resigned from both boards. Surely AI can help!

ese.arphahub.com/article/1820...

#PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity

📚 We had a great time at our recent UK Publisher Day!

This year, the focus was on the evolving role of publishers, with themes including #AI #ResearchIntegrity #metrics & more.

🌟 A big thank you to everyone who joined us & contributed to the discussions.

See more here: https://ow.ly/ocue50YwKU8

Here's Why Dozens of Autism Publications Were Retracted Dataset scraped photos of kids from autism websites without consent

Here's Why Dozens of Autism Publications Were Retracted

#ResearchEthics #ResearchIntegrity #Retraction #WCRI2026 #WCRI

www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

@slinacre.bsky.social takes a leap and leads Cabells' very first video version of our weekly blog, The Source!

#ScholComm #ResearchIntegrity #Research #Publishing

How to report journal article updates: the policy recommendations and technical practices editors need to know Is your journal prepared to handle situations where an article may require a correction? Learn the current research integrity policy and procedure guidelines to follow in this blog post.

What should be included in your journal article update policies?

This guide covers the latest recommendations from @publicationethics.bsky.social, @crossref.bsky.social, and @nisoinfo.bsky.social: buff.ly/OZbIReW

#ScholarlyPublishing #ResearchIntegrity

🛡️ Who Defends Science at Scale? And How? See the latest blog post from our VP of #ResearchIntegrity & Security, Dr Leslie McIntosh.

Leslie unpacks the difficulty of individuals tackling such widespread problems - and the need for improved infrastructure.

🔗 Read her post: https://ow.ly/Rng950YwiA2

Toward Responsible Use of Research Content in Generative Al - STM Association Toward Responsible Use of Research Content in Generative Al

Research content in Gen AI ... @stmassoc.bsky.social weighs in and invites discussion.

#AI #ResearchIntegrity #STM #GenAI