#researchintegrity — Public Fediverse posts
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A recent article exposed a widespread issue of Bangladeshi researchers having their papers retracted. However, the bigger issue may be accountability.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/08/12/bangladeshs-325-paper-retraction-crisis/
#ResearchIntegrity #AcademicIntegrity #Bangladesh #Retraction
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A recent article exposed a widespread issue of Bangladeshi researchers having their papers retracted. However, the bigger issue may be accountability.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/08/12/bangladeshs-325-paper-retraction-crisis/
#ResearchIntegrity #AcademicIntegrity #Bangladesh #Retraction
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New in Accountability in Research: responding to Holcombe et al., I propose separating structured Contributor Listings from narrative Acknowledgments. Make contributions visible—but do not standardize gratitude:
https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2026.2716269
#ResearchIntegrity #ScholarlyCommunication #ContributorRecognition #AcademicPublishing #CRediT #Acknowledgments -
New in Accountability in Research: responding to Holcombe et al., I propose separating structured Contributor Listings from narrative Acknowledgments. Make contributions visible—but do not standardize gratitude:
https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2026.2716269
#ResearchIntegrity #ScholarlyCommunication #ContributorRecognition #AcademicPublishing #CRediT #Acknowledgments -
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📢 Quick Reminder: Register for ReproducibiliTea 2026!
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#ReproducibiliTea #ReproducibiliTea2026 #OpenScience #Reproducibility #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicConference #ScientificCommunity
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Is it acceptable as a journal to set a standard threshold for acceptable levels of text overlap in submissions?
#COPE very clear and brief: NO. https://publicationethics.org/guidance/cope-position/determining-acceptable-levels-plagiarismduplication
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Is it acceptable as a journal to set a standard threshold for acceptable levels of text overlap in submissions?
#COPE very clear and brief: NO. https://publicationethics.org/guidance/cope-position/determining-acceptable-levels-plagiarismduplication
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Dryad makes life easier for authors AND journal data editors.
We work directly with authors to ensure that every dataset we publish meets the #FAIRdata principles. And we support journals at every stage of their data availability journey.
#opendata #openscience #openresearch #researchintegrity #data #datasharing #scholcomm #scolcomms #journal #editor #journaleditor #dataeditor
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The best of both worlds: Leveraging generalist infrastructure to support specialist metadata and reporting requirements with Dryad and CEDAR.
#opendata #datasharing #openresearch #openscience #researchintegrity #data #scholcomm #scholcomms
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Want to always win research grants 🏆 and get all your manuscripts accepted? Scientists may have figured out what you need to tell #ChatGPT 🤖
A new study tested hidden prompt injections embedded in manuscripts. When reviewers uploaded the papers to public #LLMs and asked for a review, the hidden instructions could steer the model toward a positive evaluation with a ~99% success rate.
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05695-x
#GenAI #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity #PromptInjection #AcademicPublishing
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Want to always win research grants 🏆 and get all your manuscripts accepted? Scientists may have figured out what you need to tell #ChatGPT 🤖
A new study tested hidden prompt injections embedded in manuscripts. When reviewers uploaded the papers to public #LLMs and asked for a review, the hidden instructions could steer the model toward a positive evaluation with a ~99% success rate.
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05695-x
#GenAI #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity #PromptInjection #AcademicPublishing
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The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics is a community initiative calling for action on the challenges of using AI in math research 🤖📐. Read the declaration and add your name as a public signatory: https://leidendeclaration.ai/about ✍️ Hashtags: #AI #Mathematics #Ethics #ResearchIntegrity #OpenScience
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The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics is a community initiative calling for action on the challenges of using AI in math research 🤖📐. Read the declaration and add your name as a public signatory: https://leidendeclaration.ai/about ✍️ Hashtags: #AI #Mathematics #Ethics #ResearchIntegrity #OpenScience
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Now-former Egyptian Culture Minister Jehan Zaki has resigned after losing a lawsuit accusing her of plagiarism. How was this not caught before?
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Now-former Egyptian Culture Minister Jehan Zaki has resigned after losing a lawsuit accusing her of plagiarism. How was this not caught before?
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@bisping Thanks for this, it definitely resonates with some vague notions I've long had about the #science business. You end on a kind of pessimistic note, but IMO you had a good drift before that: I think the filters definitely need to be updated. The filters for publications, and for people. This should probably have been done long before the advent of #AI. I'd love a world in which "papers" are mostly interactive data analysis reports, standardized very strictly to be reproducible (and replicable with new samples). I'm speaking as a life scientist, but that would make meta-analyses so much easier to conduct, and any malpractice short of literal data fabrication easier to detect. Concept papers should come as models already set in math formulas (or even as ready-coded modeling pipelines). Then the job of a reviewer would be more standardized in some ways (test the code and outputs with tools you can mostly re-use across different submissions), and deeper in other ways: Find out if the datasets are real. This would involve looking at, e. g., participant recruitment plans and payment slips, and being a contact for whistleblowers. Ofc, this would have to be squared with blind reviewing in some way. As for filtering real from fake experts for jobs etc.: This would, and should always have been, an in-depth process of reviewing someone's publications, their teaching evaluations and their own reviewer activity. Yeah, it takes longer, but in exchange, scientists below professor status could just be given long-term contracts, to reduce the number of times an institution has to do this arduous hiring process per year ;)
Science is about understanding and building things in the real world, and so I think the ultimate quality test for everything/everyone in science is how concretely they tie themselves to reality and can be reliably and reproducibly checked at any time. Which is antithetical to everything #LLM. This is my little puritanical science utopia ;)
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@bisping Thanks for this, it definitely resonates with some vague notions I've long had about the #science business. You end on a kind of pessimistic note, but IMO you had a good drift before that: I think the filters definitely need to be updated. The filters for publications, and for people. This should probably have been done long before the advent of #AI. I'd love a world in which "papers" are mostly interactive data analysis reports, standardized very strictly to be reproducible (and replicable with new samples). I'm speaking as a life scientist, but that would make meta-analyses so much easier to conduct, and any malpractice short of literal data fabrication easier to detect. Concept papers should come as models already set in math formulas (or even as ready-coded modeling pipelines). Then the job of a reviewer would be more standardized in some ways (test the code and outputs with tools you can mostly re-use across different submissions), and deeper in other ways: Find out if the datasets are real. This would involve looking at, e. g., participant recruitment plans and payment slips, and being a contact for whistleblowers. Ofc, this would have to be squared with blind reviewing in some way. As for filtering real from fake experts for jobs etc.: This would, and should always have been, an in-depth process of reviewing someone's publications, their teaching evaluations and their own reviewer activity. Yeah, it takes longer, but in exchange, scientists below professor status could just be given long-term contracts, to reduce the number of times an institution has to do this arduous hiring process per year ;)
Science is about understanding and building things in the real world, and so I think the ultimate quality test for everything/everyone in science is how concretely they tie themselves to reality and can be reliably and reproducibly checked at any time. Which is antithetical to everything #LLM. This is my little puritanical science utopia ;)
#research #researchintegrity #aislop -
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☕ Thank you for the incredible response to our first-ever international ReproducibiliTea conference!
We're thrilled to see so much enthusiasm from the research community. Registrations have been coming in quickly, and spots are filling up fast.
If you've been thinking about joining us, now is a great time to secure your place.
📢 SPILLING THE REPRODUCIBILITEA: A DECADE ON & DECADES AHEAD
🗓️ September 25, 2026
💻 Online via Zoom | Free & open to allREGISTER HERE 👇
https://forms.gle/KgemQ3gM2fEezYLv7#OpenScience #ReproducibiliTea #ResearchIntegrity #Reproducibility
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Before submitting a paper, checking a journal’s publishing behavior may now be as important as reading its aims.
New tools use open databases to highlight suspicious shifts in output and authorship.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01707-1
#OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificPublishing #DataScience #AcademicPublishing
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Before submitting a paper, checking a journal’s publishing behavior may now be as important as reading its aims.
New tools use open databases to highlight suspicious shifts in output and authorship.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01707-1
#OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificPublishing #DataScience #AcademicPublishing
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#SpringerNature to start issuing expressions of concern for #books after investigating hundreds of its books for #integrity-related problems in recent yeats In 2022, Springer Nature carried out 124 such investigations. In 2023, that number grew to 207 in 2023 & 217 in 2024, Svetlana Kleiner, a #researchintegrity adviser with the publisher, told attendees of the World Conference on Research Integrity in Vancouver, Canada, last month.
@RetractionWatch https://retractionwatch.com/2026/06/22/springer-nature-to-start-issuing-expressions-of-concern-for-books/ -
#SpringerNature to start issuing expressions of concern for #books after investigating hundreds of its books for #integrity-related problems in recent yeats In 2022, Springer Nature carried out 124 such investigations. In 2023, that number grew to 207 in 2023 & 217 in 2024, Svetlana Kleiner, a #researchintegrity adviser with the publisher, told attendees of the World Conference on Research Integrity in Vancouver, Canada, last month.
@RetractionWatch https://retractionwatch.com/2026/06/22/springer-nature-to-start-issuing-expressions-of-concern-for-books/ -
Grab your cup ☕; we're spilling the #ReproducibiliTea.
Our first-ever international conference.
🗓️Sept 25 | 💻 Online | 🎟️ FreeRegister now → https://forms.gle/KgemQ3gM2fEezYLv7
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Grab your cup ☕; we're spilling the #ReproducibiliTea.
Our first-ever international conference.
🗓️Sept 25 | 💻 Online | 🎟️ FreeRegister now → https://forms.gle/KgemQ3gM2fEezYLv7
🔗 Learn more: https://reproducibilitea.org/conference2026
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Max Planck won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. He is considered the father of quantum mechanics. So why were two of his papers retracted?
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/06/29/the-mystery-of-the-max-planck-retractions/
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Max Planck won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. He is considered the father of quantum mechanics. So why were two of his papers retracted?
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/06/29/the-mystery-of-the-max-planck-retractions/
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AI can help researchers write, code, search and check results. But it can also hallucinate sources, obscure processes and challenge scientific trust. 🔍
At the RC Trust Graduate School, @JohannesBreuer discussed what this means for research in the social and behavioral sciences.
https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/when-the-production-of-science-speeds-up-means-for-ensuring-trust-must-catch-up
#TrustworthyAI #OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #GraduateSchool #RCTrust -
AI can help researchers write, code, search and check results. But it can also hallucinate sources, obscure processes and challenge scientific trust. 🔍
At the RC Trust Graduate School, @JohannesBreuer discussed what this means for research in the social and behavioral sciences.
https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/when-the-production-of-science-speeds-up-means-for-ensuring-trust-must-catch-up
#TrustworthyAI #OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #GraduateSchool #RCTrust -
A nice surprise: the CUNY AI Lab has launched an AI Use Disclosure tool based on the GAIDeT (Generative AI Delegation Taxonomy) framework.
👉 https://tools.ailab.gc.cuny.edu/ai-disclosure/
Researchers can now generate publication-ready, structured disclosures of how generative #AI was used across different stages of the research workflow: from idea generation and literature review to data management and writing.
#OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #GenAI #AcademicPublishing #GAIDeT #MITLicense
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A nice surprise: the CUNY AI Lab has launched an AI Use Disclosure tool based on the GAIDeT (Generative AI Delegation Taxonomy) framework.
👉 https://tools.ailab.gc.cuny.edu/ai-disclosure/
Researchers can now generate publication-ready, structured disclosures of how generative #AI was used across different stages of the research workflow: from idea generation and literature review to data management and writing.
#OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #GenAI #AcademicPublishing #GAIDeT #MITLicense
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Did you know that ReproducibiliTea journal clubs can contribute to post-publication reviews?
With support from the steering committee, participating journal clubs have access to suggested review targets, peer review guidance, publication venues for commentaries, and funding opportunities.
Interested in getting involved?
Email [email protected] to receive resources and learn more.
See our blog post for more information about the project.
https://reproducibilitea.org/jc/2025/11/07/post-publication-reviewing
#ReproducubiliTea #OpenScience #Reproducibility #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity
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Did you know that ReproducibiliTea journal clubs can contribute to post-publication reviews?
With support from the steering committee, participating journal clubs have access to suggested review targets, peer review guidance, publication venues for commentaries, and funding opportunities.
Interested in getting involved?
Email [email protected] to receive resources and learn more.
See our blog post for more information about the project.
https://reproducibilitea.org/jc/2025/11/07/post-publication-reviewing
#ReproducubiliTea #OpenScience #Reproducibility #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity
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My latest article has been published in Research Integrity and Peer Review. The paper examines how scientific misconduct, questionable research practices, research climate, and supervision are studied across disciplines & research systems.
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-026-00214-1
One key takeaway: research integrity risks are shaped not only by individual behaviour, but also by research environments, supervision, evaluation systems.
#ResearchIntegrity #AcademicIntegrity #MetaResearch #SciencePolicy
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My latest article has been published in Research Integrity and Peer Review. The paper examines how scientific misconduct, questionable research practices, research climate, and supervision are studied across disciplines & research systems.
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-026-00214-1
One key takeaway: research integrity risks are shaped not only by individual behaviour, but also by research environments, supervision, evaluation systems.
#ResearchIntegrity #AcademicIntegrity #MetaResearch #SciencePolicy
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How do you know if your research is truly as open as possible?
🎥 Watch the CHORUS Forum recording on Research Data Management – OSMI Chair Laetitia Bracco introduces the #OSMIPrinciples: the first international consensus on monitoring open science.
👉 https://www.chorusaccess.org/events/chorus-forum-research-data-management/
#OpenScience #RDM #OpenData #FAIR #ResearchIntegrity #CHORUS
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How do you know if your research is truly as open as possible?
🎥 Watch the CHORUS Forum recording on Research Data Management – OSMI Chair Laetitia Bracco introduces the #OSMIPrinciples: the first international consensus on monitoring open science.
👉 https://www.chorusaccess.org/events/chorus-forum-research-data-management/
#OpenScience #RDM #OpenData #FAIR #ResearchIntegrity #CHORUS
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Is difficult peer review a hidden signal of high-impact science?
Data from Nature Communications suggests that stronger reviewer criticism correlates with more influential papers later on.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01615-4
#Science #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity #Alanalysis #Knowledge
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Is difficult peer review a hidden signal of high-impact science?
Data from Nature Communications suggests that stronger reviewer criticism correlates with more influential papers later on.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01615-4
#Science #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity #Alanalysis #Knowledge
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Researchers and journalists are sometimes seen as opponents, but they may be strongest as partners.
In a Nature commentary, science sleuth Lonni Besançon reflects on how both communities can work together to safeguard research.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00824-1
#ScienceCommunication #ResearchIntegrity #Journalism #PeerReview #OpenScience
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Researchers and journalists are sometimes seen as opponents, but they may be strongest as partners.
In a Nature commentary, science sleuth Lonni Besançon reflects on how both communities can work together to safeguard research.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00824-1
#ScienceCommunication #ResearchIntegrity #Journalism #PeerReview #OpenScience
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‘Student Geng’ ignites #ResearchIntegrity scandal in #China after calling out senior academics
Video blogger’s viral accusations of data manipulation in #Nature journals have sparked intense debate and speedy institutional investigations.
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‘Student Geng’ ignites #ResearchIntegrity scandal in #China after calling out senior academics
Video blogger’s viral accusations of data manipulation in #Nature journals have sparked intense debate and speedy institutional investigations.
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@khinsen It makes sense that there should be a deductivist (critical rationalist) counterpart to the inductivist programme of #ResearchIntegrity, and that's how I'd say #OpenScience aligns, epistemologically.
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A new preprint introduces SI-hacking (Special Issue hacking): when guest editors turn a special issue into a publication venue for themselves.
:oa: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
Yet over 1,000 "hacked" special issues are still published every year. Strikingly, #MDPI accounts for 85% of all SI-hacked special issues in the dataset, while #Frontiers contributes another 13%.
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Please give a warm welcome to the two newest ReproducibiliTea journal clubs:
✨ ReproducibiliTea NeuroMarseille at Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France ✨More info can be found here: https://reproducibilitea.org/journal-clubs/#NeuroMarseille
✨ ReproducibiliTea LSE at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK ✨
More info can be found here: https://reproducibilitea.org/journal-clubs/#LSE
Would you also like to join us for the Journal Club?
We’ll guide you every step.
📩 Get started: Email [email protected] to join Slack and launch your club!
#ReproducibiliTea #OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #Reproducibility
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Bad papers, incorrect references, and superficial reviews existed long before #ChatGPT. AI did not invent poor scholarship – it simply made it scalable.
In our new paper, we argue that the debate should move beyond AI slop toward the broader concept of academic slop: low-quality scholarship produced without sufficient care, whether by humans or machines.
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2026.2685154
#AcademicSlop #AISlop #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicPublishing #GenerativeAI
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Here's our ReproducibiliTea program for June!
📅 10 June | Galway (Hybrid)
H₂Ow Much?! Game Play-Testing
Registration link: https://universityofgalway.libcal.com/event/4541563
📅 11 June | Cologne (Online)
Technological Measures to Deal with Sensitive Data in Reproducible Research
Lecture by Gioele Barabucci (University of Cologne)
Zoom: You will receive a link if you subscribe to this mailing list:
https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/reproducibilitea-humaniteas
📅 12 June | Bielefeld (Online)
Some Papers About p-values
A discussion session exploring papers on p-values and statistical inference
More info and Zoom link: https://burst.pages.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/burst/
📅 25 June | Cologne (Online)
Reproducibility in Computer Science
Lecture by Robert Keßler (University of Cologne) with recommended reading from The Turing Way
Zoom: You will receive a link if you subscribe to this mailing list:
https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/reproducibilitea-humaniteas
🌍 All are welcome to join. We look forward to seeing you at one (or more!) of our June events.
#ReproducibiliTea #OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #Reproducibility