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  1. 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: doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2026.

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    ▪️ 30 (42%) have been retracted!

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

  2. 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.

    retractionwatch.com/2025/12/11

    #CommitteeOnPublicationEthics #Retractions #PublicationEthics #Homeopathy

  3. “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.

    retractionwatch.com/2025/10/31

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

  4. Publisher’s cost cutting, including the botched use of AI, pushes editors of top journal to resign

    Walled Culture has noted previously the fabulous levels of profit that many academic publishers have achieved, largely through the abuse of copyright, as explained in Walled Culture the book (free digital versions). And yet those levels are apparently not enough for perhaps the most successful of the academic publishers, Elsevier. A story on the site Retraction Watch reports on the mass […]

    #academicPublishing #AccessToKnowledge #accessibility #ai #apc #copyediting #editing #elsevier #journals #openAccess #production #profits #resignations #retractions #subscriptions

    walledculture.org/publishers-c

  5. "A committee of the [US] National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will conduct a consensus study that will seek to upgrade the scientific literature by recommending improvements to the processes used to correct errors in scientific articles, including editorial expressions of concern, errata, corrigendum, retractions, and other actions."

    nationalacademies.org/our-work

    #Retractions #Corrections #PublicationEthics #NationalAcademies #NASEM #AcademicMastodon #AcademicPublishing

  6. 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