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Paper mills in the news
…of the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, titled Paper Mills and Research Misconduct: Facing the Challenges of Scientific Publishing. Discussing the current and future challenges in securing scientific literature from fraud, Chris Graf and Jennifer Byrne contributed to the hearing, alongside Dr. Brandon Stell, Neuroscientist at… - News
In the news: January 2019 Digest
…the Chief Medical Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. José Baselga, has failed to follow AACR disclosure rules on payments from corporations, on multiple articles he has published whilst President of the AACR and Editor in Chief of one of their journals. - News
In the news: December 2018 Digest
…focus for 2019 will be research integrity. Peer review An editor at JAMA-Pediatrics wrote a nice overview on peer review for the lay readership of The New York Times. He highlighted the potential pitfalls and benefits, in fact Dr. Carroll titled his paper " - News
In the news: June 2018 Digest
…Major philanthropic organizations, like the Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust don’t yet require sharing of results. The reason for concern per Dr.Bruckner: over $85 billion invested into medical research goes to waste every year because results are not available. http://www.peah.it/2018/05/5322/ On May 25th, the EU’s General Data Protection… - Case
Concerns over research by an author in numerous, separate publications
…was a legitimate Dr K and wondered if the other person was an imposter.… - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2020: Understanding text recycling
…a paragraph with such phrases placed in quotation marks as an example, and then send those to the editor in a pre-publication query to see what they really expect. 6. As Dr. David Hansen explained, rights are accorded to the authors as per the Fair Use sections of the law--and the publisher contracts somehow put a check on those rights as the authors give away all those rights to the… - Forum discussion topics
Predatory publishing: next steps and where do we go from here?
…tool PDF 3 MB At the start of the discussion, Dr Kelly Cobey described the Authenticator Project, being developed by the Centre for… - News
A vision for a more trans-inclusive publishing world: guest article
…Assistant Professor at the University of California in the Department of Informatics, where she is the founder of the Transformative Play Lab. Dr Tanenbaum’s work is engaged with issues of gender, identity, and narrative. Dr Tanenbaum’s work is playful, provocative, and interdisciplinary, frequently straddling the line between art,… New UK Panel for Research Integrity
…to include the legal footing and human resource issues, practicalities and logistics. Another meeting of the stakeholders and possibly the shadow advisory board will be held. October is the target date for the establishment of the panel. Comments Dr Godlee welcomed the plans. Everyone was very glad to see it becoming…- News
In the news: February Digest
…government support.https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-scholars-are-at-risk-all-around-the-world-and-canada-needs-to-lead/ An FBI report to the Dr. Francis Collins, director of the US National Institutes of Health warns that “some… Subcommittees and working groups
…href="https://publicationethics.org/about/council/tara-hoke">Tara Hoke Non-Council members Blu Tirohl (Honorary Editor Journal of Gender Studies) Dr Irving Rettig (Reed College) John Pham (Editor-in-Chief, Cell) Susan Stryker (University of Arizona) Tess Tanenbaum (University of California) Walter Bouman (Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Transgender Health, Nottingham…