Why We Must Work Together to Harden the Scholarly Supply Chain - The Scholarly Kitchen At the STM innovation and Integrity days in London last week, it's clear that research integrity has become an increasingly pressing issue. Many publishers are reporting significant increases in submi...

Last week I attended the #STMInnovation and #STMIntegrity days in London.
I believe the scholarly research ecosystem needs to change in a pretty substantial way if we're to face in to the societal threats that have emerged.
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A lot of #scholcomm #publishing startups focus on using #AI to detect bad manuscripts at the point of review.
Publishing is a late stage step in the scholalry supply change. Trying to detect what has happened at each upstream step is a fool's errand. The whole chain needs hardening #STMinnovation

Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries - Nature Human Behaviour What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? To answer this question, the authors surveyed 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and found that trust in scientists is moderately high.

The opening keynote at #STMInnovation, Rachel Gubermann-Hill of U Bristol and UKCORI says there's no real evidence that the public doesn't trust scientists
Here's the key article she recomended: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Research Integrity was the Leading Topic of Conversation at the STM Innovation Day - The Scholarly Kitchen At the start  of every December, STM hosts their innovation and integrity days in London. This year, research integrity was the focus of both days, reflecting growing interest and concern in the…

In today's @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social I write about how research integrity tools took centre stage at the #STMInnovation a couple of weeks ago in London.
Scarcity to abundance in two years. How will platform providers adapt and integrate these innovations?
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Publishers shadow ban researchers from specific journals but they just publish elsewhere.
#stmweek
#stminnovation

A theme has emerged in this panel that publishers are using analytics to identify 'bad actors', ie academics that do not behave with integrity.
There's no guidance on what to do about that and the intelligence currently isn't being shared.
#stmweek
#stminnovation

This year is the first that @bmj.com are co-presenting the #VesaliusInnovationAward
Anca Babor is talking about their commitment to supporting entrepreneurs and innovators.
#stmweek #stminnovation

Jignesh Bhate gives a speech at the Vesalius Innovation awards in London

Jignesh Bhate of Molecular Connections talking about the importance of encouraging innovation. #stmweek #stminnovation

It's really good to see research integrity tools really beginning to mature. Different integrity signals and markers are getting integrated into platforms, with use cases and workflows being fleshed out to support both publishers and authors.
#stminnovation #stmweek

Is a digital wallet a workable solution for identity management in academia?
It would have to be created by the government and general purpose with the ability for sector specific services to integrate.
#stminnovation

Federated identity is one way to manage identity provision.
Of course, in #scholarlypublishing we have an accepted federated identity solution.
@orcid.bsky.social
#stminnovation

Opening keynote at #stminnovation from Debora Comparin of Thales Digital Identity & Security
She asks "How can we trust who the user is?"

SciScore for Rigor and Reproducibility During the Rubber-meets-the-road panel at the 2019 STM Conference in London, Anita Bandrowski and Martijn Roelandse presented new means to measure transparency and reproducibility of biomedical journals. These means are based on SciScore —, a tool that can evaluate whether the authors have addressed blinding, sex, and randomization of subjects into groups, power analysis, as well as key resources. These are all difficult and tedious things for humans to check, but critical if we want to measure — and ultimately improve — the quality of the science being conducted and published.The first results have been presented in London.

Always nice to see when things work as they should; our @sciscore slides for #stminnovation are now a citable item on @figshare and visible in my @ORCID_Org profile
. Just saying :)

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