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Bias in peer review
…There is a real opportunity to change the assumptions built into our infrastructures. So, for example, in ScholarOne, what are the fields that are collected for users? In research co-produced with indigenous communities, for example, reviewers may be community members who do not have an academic background. However, ScholarOne cannot record this type of affiliation, if it is not an institution. So,… - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2022: Managing paper mills
…behaviour. Renee explained the steps taken in the investigation and what they uncovered: The evaluation of a series of submissions linked to the author revealed a co-publication network involving authors and editors. Editorial assessment revealed common issues across the series pertaining to authorship, competing interests, and peer review integrity. PLOS concluded that… - Forum discussion topics
Systematic manipulation of the publishing process via “paper mills”
…medical communication company? Both are ghost authorship. Our system triggers an email to all co-authors of a paper stating that they need to confirm authorship and send a contributor statement. Is it possible to make it mandatory for Chinese authors to provide an institutional email address? Can we insist that when researchers from institutions in China submit papers to international… - News
Case Discussion: Lack of trial registration leads to new concerns about study conduct and ethical review/approval
…institution, who was not a co-author and wished to remain anonymous, informed the editors that the ethics committee named in the article did not exist at the institution. After not hearing back from the authors, the editors added a Comment to the article alerting readers of non-adherence to clinical trial requirements. The authors later said that ethics approval had been granted by another… - News
Where next in peer review? Part 2: COPE commentary
…href="https://publicationethics.org/publication-integrity-week-2023/ai-peer-review">AI and peer review at September’s Publication Integrity Week. This featured discussion between Hum Co-founder and President Dustin Smith, and lecturer in research ethics and integrity, Mohammad Hosseini. While both speakers allowed for uncertainty about the future developments of AI, they gave quite definite answers on a number of technical points, illustrating the need for… - News
In the news: February Digest
…target="_blank">http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/30/217/full/ The co-founders of Retraction Watch, Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky, put the rise of retractions from 2000 to just a few years ago, when they seemed to plateau into some context. About half of retractions involved misconduct or fraud. Those willing to cheat the scientific system have more tools to manipulate images, statistics but so do those trying to avert printing fraudulent work. They… Seminars
…16 March 2012 at Charles Darwin House , London UK. Retractions and misconduct: Lessons from Science — Dr Andrew Sugden, Deputy Editor and International Managing Editor, Science Watch presentation [11:00] Download…