PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

PISS is easy to spot & easy to police with special issue tags & editor/author metadata. Journals could include these in xml reported to OpenAlex or CrossREF. Indexers can require them to do so.

Efforts like ours and #ScienceSleuths & #FoSci shouldn't have to be the vehicle for essential data.

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The super sleuths trying to stop shoddy science | Particle A ragtag group on a mission to fight fraudulent science.

There's a ragtag group of sleuths on a missions to fight fraudulent science.

particle.scitech.org.au/people/the-s...

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Majority of fruit fly immunity studies can be replicated, huge analysis finds Verification of 50 years of data bolsters immunology research, but identifies “suspicious” papers that don’t hold up

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Fruit flies are the workhorse of #immunology labs and "the launchpad for other animal models" also because many results have been replicated.

Efforts to verify "suspicious" claims are going on, and so does the debate on how replication should be performed.

‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research A group of scientists who are experts at spotting fraudulent research outline five essential steps to combat industrialized scientific misconduct.

Fighting the rise of papermills: A recent Nature article sheds light on the industrial-scale production of fraudulent research, with papermills churning out fabricated studies that undermine scientific progress and trust.
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...