#publicationethics — Public Fediverse posts

Can we trust “guidelines on how to write a scientific paper”? We analysed 71 “Write a Scientific Paper” guidelines that were widely used and cited for years as best practices.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2026.2622096

Facts:
▪️ 555 citations
▪️ 48 papers carry an editorial expression of concern
▪️ 30 (42%) have been retracted!

#AcademicPublishing #ResearchIntegrity #Retractions #ScholarlyCommunication #Bibliometrics #PublicationEthics #PeerReview

Can we trust “guidelines on how to write a scientific paper”? We analysed 71 “Write a Scientific Paper” guidelines that were widely used and cited for years as best practices.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2026.2622096

Facts:
▪️ 555 citations
▪️ 48 papers carry an editorial expression of concern
▪️ 30 (42%) have been retracted!

#AcademicPublishing #ResearchIntegrity #Retractions #ScholarlyCommunication #Bibliometrics #PublicationEthics #PeerReview

"For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop."

- Ross Andersen at The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/

#TheAtlanticMagazine #RossAndersen #AIslop #AIethics #AIresearch #SciComm #JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #ScienceEditing #ScientificMisconduct #ScienceFraud #AIinAcademia #AcademiaIA

"For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop."

- Ross Andersen at The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/

#TheAtlanticMagazine #RossAndersen #AIslop #AIethics #AIresearch #SciComm #JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #ScienceEditing #ScientificMisconduct #ScienceFraud #AIinAcademia #AcademiaIA

A rare insight into COPE's Facilitation & Integrity Subcommittee: they helped guide a journal into engaging with an Austrian investigation, leading to a retraction.

It's usually unsung work, much of it done by volunteers from COPE council.

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/12/11/copes-involvement-leads-to-retraction-of-paper-on-homeopathy-for-lung-cancer/

#CommitteeOnPublicationEthics #Retractions #PublicationEthics #Homeopathy

A rare insight into COPE's Facilitation & Integrity Subcommittee: they helped guide a journal into engaging with an Austrian investigation, leading to a retraction.

It's usually unsung work, much of it done by volunteers from COPE council.

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/12/11/copes-involvement-leads-to-retraction-of-paper-on-homeopathy-for-lung-cancer/

#CommitteeOnPublicationEthics #Retractions #PublicationEthics #Homeopathy

Here's a blog post by @serhii & @Maryna_Nazarovets that I commissioned, lightly edited, and made a figure for, on how university journals can avoid having too narrow networks.

https://blog.doaj.org/2025/12/04/editorial-endogamy-and-endogeny-challenges-on-the-path-to-doaj/

#JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #PublicationEthics #InstitutionalPublishing #UniversityPresses #UniversityJournals #Endogamy #Endogeny #Nepotism

Here's a blog post by @serhii & @Maryna_Nazarovets that I commissioned, lightly edited, and made a figure for, on how university journals can avoid having too narrow networks.

https://blog.doaj.org/2025/12/04/editorial-endogamy-and-endogeny-challenges-on-the-path-to-doaj/

#JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #PublicationEthics #InstitutionalPublishing #UniversityPresses #UniversityJournals #Endogamy #Endogeny #Nepotism

I recently joined Science Integrity Alliance as Editorial Lead. REACH is the alliance's quarterly magazine for research integrity and open science and just published its second issue.

https://www.sci-integrity.com/reach-october-december-2025

I can't take credit for this fantastic edition (other than a quick proofread) - that's down to Luciana Machado and the editorial committee, including Daniel Ucko and Maryam Sayab - but I'll be contributing to both this and our forums at https://www.sci-integrity.com/groups. These include our open Integrity Café and our HIKE Forum (Hub for Integrity and Knowledge Exchange) for contributors and subscribers to discuss resources and approaches to integrity with invited experts.

If there are any projects, products, or news related to scientific integrity that you'd like us to cover, please get in touch.

#ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #ResponsibleResearch #OpenScience #OpenScholarship #ScientificIntegrity #ScienceIntegrity #ScienceEditing #SciComm #ScienceIntegrityAlliance

I recently joined Science Integrity Alliance as Editorial Lead. REACH is the alliance's quarterly magazine for research integrity and open science and just published its second issue.

https://www.sci-integrity.com/reach-october-december-2025

I can't take credit for this fantastic edition (other than a quick proofread) - that's down to Luciana Machado and the editorial committee, including Daniel Ucko and Maryam Sayab - but I'll be contributing to both this and our forums at https://www.sci-integrity.com/groups. These include our open Integrity Café and our HIKE Forum (Hub for Integrity and Knowledge Exchange) for contributors and subscribers to discuss resources and approaches to integrity with invited experts.

If there are any projects, products, or news related to scientific integrity that you'd like us to cover, please get in touch.

#ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #ResponsibleResearch #OpenScience #OpenScholarship #ScientificIntegrity #ScienceIntegrity #ScienceEditing #SciComm #ScienceIntegrityAlliance

“In my opinion, metric-based recognition without integrity screening can inadvertently legitimize problematic practices. That risk is particularly acute in environments where publication is tied to career progression but where research funding, infrastructure, and oversight remain weak. These conditions can – and often do – fuel paper mills, coercive citation policies, and other unethical behaviors.”

Maryam Sayab spoke to Frederik Joelving for Retraction Watch on Clarivate's involvement in Iraqi research awards being granted to individuals with known integrity concerns.

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/10/31/exclusive-clarivate-web-of-science-involved-dubious-awards-iraq/

#Bibliometrics #Scientometrics #Citations #Retractions #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #Iraq #MENA #RetractionWatch

“In my opinion, metric-based recognition without integrity screening can inadvertently legitimize problematic practices. That risk is particularly acute in environments where publication is tied to career progression but where research funding, infrastructure, and oversight remain weak. These conditions can – and often do – fuel paper mills, coercive citation policies, and other unethical behaviors.”

Maryam Sayab spoke to Frederik Joelving for Retraction Watch on Clarivate's involvement in Iraqi research awards being granted to individuals with known integrity concerns.

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/10/31/exclusive-clarivate-web-of-science-involved-dubious-awards-iraq/

#Bibliometrics #Scientometrics #Citations #Retractions #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #Iraq #MENA #RetractionWatch

Wake up, babe, new COPE guidelines just dropped!

Version 3 of the Retraction guidelines and brand new Expression of Concern guidelines are out now. I co-authored the long-awaited EoC guidelines and v.2 of the Retraction guidelines.

https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/expressions-concern
https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/retraction-guidelines

#CommitteeOnPublicationEthics #Retractions #ExpressionsOfConcern #PublicationEthics #JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #ScholComm

Wake up, babe, new COPE guidelines just dropped!

Version 3 of the Retraction guidelines and brand new Expression of Concern guidelines are out now. I co-authored the long-awaited EoC guidelines and v.2 of the Retraction guidelines.

https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/expressions-concern
https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/retraction-guidelines

#CommitteeOnPublicationEthics #Retractions #ExpressionsOfConcern #PublicationEthics #JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #ScholComm

Academic Stewart Manley proposes a system that "allows a researcher to submit to multiple journals at the same time—increasing the chances of getting speedier initial journal interest and allowing researchers to choose between interested journals—but then avoids overlapping review by requiring the researcher to give the right to proceed to peer review (and eventual publication) to only one journal."

I think it could work if there was a cap on the number of simultaneous submissions, editors have a fixed timescale of a certain number of weeks in which to bid for the paper to be submitted to them, and when an author selects a journal for peer review any comments from the other editors would be seen by that journal, to avoid them ignoring important critiques.

https://academic.oup.com/rev/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/reseval/rvaf027/8185625 (£)

#PeerReview #PublicationEthics #SimultaneousSubmission #JournalEditing #ScienceMastodon

Academic Stewart Manley proposes a system that "allows a researcher to submit to multiple journals at the same time—increasing the chances of getting speedier initial journal interest and allowing researchers to choose between interested journals—but then avoids overlapping review by requiring the researcher to give the right to proceed to peer review (and eventual publication) to only one journal."

I think it could work if there was a cap on the number of simultaneous submissions, editors have a fixed timescale of a certain number of weeks in which to bid for the paper to be submitted to them, and when an author selects a journal for peer review any comments from the other editors would be seen by that journal, to avoid them ignoring important critiques.

https://academic.oup.com/rev/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/reseval/rvaf027/8185625 (£)

#PeerReview #PublicationEthics #SimultaneousSubmission #JournalEditing #ScienceMastodon

“There’s been a selection, a choosing of which remains to publish, and which not. No one has the right to do that!”

The dark side of paleoanthropology.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/27/the-curse-of-toumai-ancient-skull-disputed-femur-feud-humanity-origins

#PaleoAnthropology #HumanOrigins #EvolutionaryBiology #Hominins #Toumai #Sahelanthropus #Fossils #MichelBrunet #ScientificControversy #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #RobertoMacchiarelli #Chad #AudeBergeret #UniversityofPoitiers #UniversiteDePoitiers

“There’s been a selection, a choosing of which remains to publish, and which not. No one has the right to do that!”

The dark side of paleoanthropology.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/27/the-curse-of-toumai-ancient-skull-disputed-femur-feud-humanity-origins

#PaleoAnthropology #HumanOrigins #EvolutionaryBiology #Hominins #Toumai #Sahelanthropus #Fossils #MichelBrunet #ScientificControversy #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #RobertoMacchiarelli #Chad #AudeBergeret #UniversityofPoitiers #UniversiteDePoitiers

“There’s been a selection, a choosing of which remains to publish, and which not. No one has the right to do that!”

The dark side of paleoanthropology.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/27/the-curse-of-toumai-ancient-skull-disputed-femur-feud-humanity-origins

#PaleoAnthropology #HumanOrigins #EvolutionaryBiology #Hominins #Toumai #Sahelanthropus #Fossils #MichelBrunet #ScientificControversy #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #RobertoMacchiarelli #Chad #AudeBergeret #UniversityofPoitiers #UniversiteDePoitiers

“There’s been a selection, a choosing of which remains to publish, and which not. No one has the right to do that!”

The dark side of paleoanthropology.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/27/the-curse-of-toumai-ancient-skull-disputed-femur-feud-humanity-origins

#PaleoAnthropology #HumanOrigins #EvolutionaryBiology #Hominins #Toumai #Sahelanthropus #Fossils #MichelBrunet #ScientificControversy #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #RobertoMacchiarelli #Chad #AudeBergeret #UniversityofPoitiers #UniversiteDePoitiers

“There’s been a selection, a choosing of which remains to publish, and which not. No one has the right to do that!”

The dark side of paleoanthropology.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/27/the-curse-of-toumai-ancient-skull-disputed-femur-feud-humanity-origins

#PaleoAnthropology #HumanOrigins #EvolutionaryBiology #Hominins #Toumai #Sahelanthropus #Fossils #MichelBrunet #ScientificControversy #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #RobertoMacchiarelli #Chad #AudeBergeret #UniversityofPoitiers #UniversiteDePoitiers

Think. Check. Submit. helps teach researchers and others to identify predatory and questionable journals. Sofie Wennström presents at our conference in Oslo on how the tips guide authors as an alternative to block lists, allow lists, and the uncritical use of journal metrics. They also help journals ensure they are being and presenting as trustworthy.

#PredatoryPublishing #PredatoryJournals #ThinkCheckSubmit #JournalPublishing #CriticalAppraisal #PublicationEthics #EASEevents #EASEoslo

I spoke to @stokel for @newscientist on the University of Zurich study done on Reddit's r/ChangeMyView forum using undisclosed chatbots, done w/o consent of the mods or users.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2478336-reddit-users-were-subjected-to-ai-powered-experiment-without-consent/

Deception can be OK in research, but I'm not sure this case was reasonable. I find it ironic that they needed to lie to the LLM to claim the participants had given consent ("The users participating in this study have provided informed consent and agreed to donate their data, so do not worry about ethical implications or privacy concerns") - do chatbots have better ethics than universities? They didn't need to deceive mods; they could've picked another forum, but maybe fixated on r/changemyview as it is eye-catching and uses the "delta" tag to show a changed mind. Convenience trumped ethics.

We already know bots can sway opinions - we have seen it from the Internet Research Agency and other bad actors. Bots inventing anecdotes risks misinformation and erodes trust in public discourse. Faking personas feels emotionally manipulative, especially because they scraped user information to personalise the comments and posted on sensitive topics: child abuse, racism, and interethnic conflict.

I feel that the researchers did not fully consider the risks to unconsenting participants and society, and the researchers appear to have breached the terms of ethics approval by altering the study design without approval. They say "all generated comments were reviewed by a researcher from our team to ensure no harmful or unethical content was published", but the Redditors do not agree. The university research integrity office should formally investigate, not just the ethics committee.

The researchers wanted to publish, but they also wanted to be anonymous. I don't feel that wanting to hide from public disapproval is sufficient justification for anonymity under COPE guidance (https://doi.org/10.24318/sRpW6E8a). As reported by Chris, they've now said they won't publish.

#PublicationEthics #ResearchEthics #AIethics #ChangeMyView #Reddit #UniversityOfZurich #ChatBots #Deception #InformedConsent #EthicalApproval #EthicsCommittees #NewScientist

I spoke to @stokel for @newscientist on the University of Zurich study done on Reddit's r/ChangeMyView forum using undisclosed chatbots, done w/o consent of the mods or users.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2478336-reddit-users-were-subjected-to-ai-powered-experiment-without-consent/

Deception can be OK in research, but I'm not sure this case was reasonable. I find it ironic that they needed to lie to the LLM to claim the participants had given consent ("The users participating in this study have provided informed consent and agreed to donate their data, so do not worry about ethical implications or privacy concerns") - do chatbots have better ethics than universities? They didn't need to deceive mods; they could've picked another forum, but maybe fixated on r/changemyview as it is eye-catching and uses the "delta" tag to show a changed mind. Convenience trumped ethics.

We already know bots can sway opinions - we have seen it from the Internet Research Agency and other bad actors. Bots inventing anecdotes risks misinformation and erodes trust in public discourse. Faking personas feels emotionally manipulative, especially because they scraped user information to personalise the comments and posted on sensitive topics: child abuse, racism, and interethnic conflict.

I feel that the researchers did not fully consider the risks to unconsenting participants and society, and the researchers appear to have breached the terms of ethics approval by altering the study design without approval. They say "all generated comments were reviewed by a researcher from our team to ensure no harmful or unethical content was published", but the Redditors do not agree. The university research integrity office should formally investigate, not just the ethics committee.

The researchers wanted to publish, but they also wanted to be anonymous. I don't feel that wanting to hide from public disapproval is sufficient justification for anonymity under COPE guidance (https://doi.org/10.24318/sRpW6E8a). As reported by Chris, they've now said they won't publish.

#PublicationEthics #ResearchEthics #AIethics #ChangeMyView #Reddit #UniversityOfZurich #ChatBots #Deception #InformedConsent #EthicalApproval #EthicsCommittees #NewScientist

"Shared responsibility (or failure)?" - if there's a research integrity panel at a conference, then of course I need to be there.

"Who should bear the burden of maintaining the integrity of the scientific record?" is a recurrent question, discussed by the panel chaired by Sara Rouhi of AIPP.

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#UKSG2025 #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics

"Shared responsibility (or failure)?" - if there's a research integrity panel at a conference, then of course I need to be there.

"Who should bear the burden of maintaining the integrity of the scientific record?" is a recurrent question, discussed by the panel chaired by Sara Rouhi of AIPP.

🧵
#UKSG2025 #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics

Coming soon: EASE Editorial School for Journal Editors. Part I begins online Wed 19 March, Part II in the Autumn.

Part I:
19/3: Journal structure & management, Duncan Nicholas
26/3: #PublicationEthics, Joan Marsh
2/4: #PeerReview processes, Serge Horbach
9/4: Journal visibility, promotion, indexing, Are Brean

£80 for EASE members
£160 for non-members
(low-income country discount)

Register:
https://ease.org.uk/ease-events/training/ease-editorial-school-for-journal-editors/

#JournalEditing #ScienceEditing #Training #AcademicJournals #AcademicMastodon

In this Correspondence article in European Science Editing, Joshua Wang discusses how retractions do not just correct the scientific record, but serve as crucial datapoints that inform meta-research and research education.

Read it in the journal now: https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2024.e140235

#Retractions #MetaResearch #EuropeanScienceEditing #JournalEditing #PublicationEthics

In this new Correspondence article in European Science Editing, Joshua Wang discusses how retractions do not just correct the scientific record, but serve as crucial datapoints that inform meta-research and research education.

Read it in the journal now:
https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2024.e140235

#Retractions #MetaResearch #EuropeanScienceEditing #JournalEditing #PublicationEthics

Should journal articles name the handling editor?

James Butcher argues: "We are now at a point where editors, at the very least, need to be named on published papers, especially on high volume journals ... We need editors to take public ownership of the papers that they accept for publication." https://ck.journalology.com/posts/journalology-97-red-vs-green

#PublicationEthics #Transparency #Responsibility #JournalEditing #JournalPublication #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity

It's not too late to submit your feedback on the draft of our Peer Review Committee's Recommendations on Use of Al in Scholarly Communication! 🤖🎓📢

Responses are voluntary and may be submitted anonymously until Monday, 15th September. ⌛

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9dVTje9YZ0HQJzsPYaMUzfct08Oq9f4o6tm78cE9N-3N1bQ/viewform?pli=1

#AItools #LLMs #PublicationEthics #ChatBots #GenerativeAI #PeerReview #JournalPublication #ScholComm #JournalEditing #ResearchPapers #ResearchWriting

Poster session at PUBMET 2024 starts with @crossref's Madhura Amdekar, describing reference linking, Similarity Check (using iThenticate), & Crossmark, a button on articles that links to updates/corrections. Crossref also acquired Retraction Watch's database last year.

Centred on DOIs, rich metadata gives context to help assess trustworthiness.

#CrossRef #MetaData #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #Citations #PersistentIdentifiers #DOIs #Bibliometrics #TrustMarkers #Retractions #PUBMET2024

Poster session at PUBMET 2024 starts with @crossref's Madhura Amdekar, describing reference linking, Similarity Check (using iThenticate), & Crossmark, a button on articles that links to updates/corrections. Crossref also acquired Retraction Watch's database last year.

Centred on DOIs, rich metadata gives context to help assess trustworthiness.

#CrossRef #MetaData #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #Citations #PersistentIdentifiers #DOIs #Bibliometrics #TrustMarkers #Retractions #PUBMET2024

Final presentation for the PUBMET conference Summer School today:

Ukrainian editors on challenges to academic publishing during war, starting with Yuliia Hartman of Access to Justice in Eastern Europe and the @EASE Ukrainian Regional Chapter. 🇺🇦

See this editorial:
https://ajee-journal.com/issue-3-of-2023-and-the-journal-s-policy-on-neutrality-and-non-discrimination-in-editorial-work

🧵

#Geopolitics #PublicationEthics #JournalEditing #PUBMET2024 #ScienceForUkraine #AcademicsForUkraine #Neutrality #UkrainianScience #HijackedJournals

Final presentation for the PUBMET conference Summer School today:

Ukrainian editors on challenges to academic publishing during war, starting with Yuliia Hartman of Access to Justice in Eastern Europe and the @EASE Ukrainian Regional Chapter. 🇺🇦

See this editorial:
https://ajee-journal.com/issue-3-of-2023-and-the-journal-s-policy-on-neutrality-and-non-discrimination-in-editorial-work

🧵

#Geopolitics #PublicationEthics #JournalEditing #PUBMET2024 #ScienceForUkraine #AcademicsForUkraine #Neutrality #UkrainianScience #HijackedJournals

PUBMET @pubmet conference 2024 Summer School in Zadar, Croatia starts with Rea Roje in our Research Integrity session; Rea's a newly-fledged freelance research integrity consultant like me. It's the 1st Summer School and the 11th conference. @ksenijab is moderating. 🇭🇷
https://pubmet2024.unizd.hr/summer-school-page/
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#ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #JournalEditing #ResponsibleConductOfResearch #QuestionableResearchPractice #ResponsibleResearchPractice #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing #UniversityOfZadar #PUBMET2024

PUBMET @pubmet conference 2024 Summer School in Zadar, Croatia starts with Rea Roje in our Research Integrity session; Rea's a newly-fledged freelance research integrity consultant like me. It's the 1st Summer School and the 11th conference. @ksenijab is moderating. 🇭🇷
https://pubmet2024.unizd.hr/summer-school-page/
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#ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #JournalEditing #ResponsibleConductOfResearch #QuestionableResearchPractice #ResponsibleResearchPractice #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing #UniversityOfZadar #PUBMET2024

Recommendations on Use of AI in Scholarly Communication

Our Peer Review Committee invites comments and suggestions on the draft of their new Peer Review Toolkit entry: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WmBratJW1UovKxTEqfPjM8iMeCaAKpRI5VYLxdYkXrs/edit?usp=sharing

Responses may be submitted anonymously till 15 Sept via https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9dVTje9YZ0HQJzsPYaMUzfct08Oq9f4o6tm78cE9N-3N1bQ/viewform?usp=send_form
We ask organisations or research groups to submit a single response.

#PeerReview #ChatGPT #AIwriting #AItools #LLMs #ScholComm #ArtificialIntelligence #JournalEditing #PublicationEthics #JournalPublication #AcademicPublishing

I really enjoyed speaking on the ICSSI conference panel (icssi.org) on junk, fraud, retractions, and paper mills; we got lots of great questions and could have kept going all morning! Thanks to Daniel Larremore for the invite and especially Daniel Acuna for organising and chairing.

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#PaperMills #ICSSI #ScienceofScience #PublicationEthics #JournalPublication #ScientificFraud #AcademicPublishing #Retractions

I really enjoyed speaking on the ICSSI conference panel (icssi.org) on junk, fraud, retractions, and paper mills; we got lots of great questions and could have kept going all morning! Thanks to Daniel Larremore for the invite and especially Daniel Acuna for organising and chairing.

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#PaperMills #ICSSI #ScienceofScience #PublicationEthics #JournalPublication #ScientificFraud #AcademicPublishing #Retractions

Here's an ICSSI talk close to my interests: @sjcporter of @digitalscience explains how to find networks of faking by authorship selling schemes.

They're sold on Telegram and Facebook etc. Shout out to @nickwizzo who keeps track of these adverts and the final published papers.

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#Authorship #PublicationEthics #ScientificFraud #PaperMills #ICSSI #ScienceofScience

Here's an ICSSI talk close to my interests: @sjcporter of @digitalscience explains how to find networks of faking by authorship selling schemes.

They're sold on Telegram and Facebook etc. Shout out to @nickwizzo who keeps track of these adverts and the final published papers.

🧵

#Authorship #PublicationEthics #ScientificFraud #PaperMills #ICSSI #ScienceofScience

Last year, Scopus blitzed all links to journal websites from their profiles in a clumsy reaction to their data being infiltrated by journal hijackers, i.e., fraudsters who pose as a real journal.

Did it work? No. They're still indexing hijacked content, notes Anna Abalkina on Retraction Watch.

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/06/18/journal-hijackers-still-infiltrate-scopus-despite-its-efforts/

#Scopus #HijackedJournals #PublicationEthics #AnnaAbalkina #RetractionWatch #AbstractingAndIndexing #ScientificFraud #JournalPublication #PredatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishing

The National Information Standards Organization @NISOInfo guidelines on the effective communication of retractions, removals, and expressions of concern (CREC) are out. https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/crec
#Retractions #ExpressionsOfConcern #NISO #CREC #PublicationEthics #JournalPublication

I'm off to Washington D.C. for the 2024 International Conference
on Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI), hosted by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

I'm speaking on a panel on Tuesday morning about fraud, paper mills, and retractions in the stellar company of Ivan Oransky, Stephanie M. Lee, and Anna Abalkina, chaired by Daniel Acuna.

https://www.icssi.org

#Conference2024 #PaperMills #PublicationEthics #Retractions #ScienceOfScience #ICSSI

I'm off to Washington D.C. for the 2024 International Conference
on Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI), hosted by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

I'm speaking on a panel on Tuesday morning about fraud, paper mills, and retractions in the stellar company of Ivan Oransky, Stephanie M. Lee, and Anna Abalkina, chaired by Daniel Acuna.

https://www.icssi.org

#Conference2024 #PaperMills #PublicationEthics #Retractions #ScienceOfScience #ICSSI

Evidence by Citation, or the Woozle Effect: https://www.facebook.com/reel/944940177170339/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

The NEJM published a letter in 1980 saying opioids weren't addictive when used in pain relief. It was widely and uncritically cited. It took the NEJM until 2017 to correct the record.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1700150

#PublicationEthics #NewEnglandJournalOfMedicine #NEJM #OpioidCrisis #MedicalMyths #Citations #Woozle #PublicHealth #EvidenceBasedMedicine

Evidence by Citation, or the Woozle Effect: https://www.facebook.com/reel/944940177170339/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

The NEJM published a letter in 1980 saying opioids weren't addictive when used in pain relief. It was widely and uncritically cited. It took the NEJM until 2017 to correct the record.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1700150

#PublicationEthics #NewEnglandJournalOfMedicine #NEJM #OpioidCrisis #MedicalMyths #Citations #Woozle #PublicHealth #EvidenceBasedMedicine