#scientificintegrity — Public Fediverse posts
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❗Update on Plagiarism and Falsification in Scientific Publications
Today, I officially submitted requests for the retraction of articles to the editorial boards of the journals "Land Reclamation and Water Management" and "Bulletin of NUWM".
❗Key facts of misconduct:
🔹 Plagiarism: Unauthorized use of my original relief map (2015) without citation.
🔹 Falsification: Intentional removal (retouching) of the author’s stamp with coordinates and date-time on site photographs.
🔹 Duplication: Publication of identical material in 2021 and 2024.Next steps:
In the event of attempts to covertly remove the articles without an official retraction notice, relevant complaints will be forwarded directly to @crossref and the international members of the editorial boards.#OpenScience #ResearchMisconduct #AcademicMastodon #ScientificIntegrity #Hydrology #Geoscience #GIS #FediScience #Plagiarism #SvystunovaGully #COPE #Crossref #DataIntegrity #ImageManipulation #AcademicChatter #ResearchEthics #EarthScience #HigherEducation
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❗Update on Plagiarism and Falsification in Scientific Publications
Today, I officially submitted requests for the retraction of articles to the editorial boards of the journals "Land Reclamation and Water Management" and "Bulletin of NUWM".
❗Key facts of misconduct:
🔹 Plagiarism: Unauthorized use of my original relief map (2015) without citation.
🔹 Falsification: Intentional removal (retouching) of the author’s stamp with coordinates and date-time on site photographs.
🔹 Duplication: Publication of identical material in 2021 and 2024.Next steps:
In the event of attempts to covertly remove the articles without an official retraction notice, relevant complaints will be forwarded directly to @crossref and the international members of the editorial boards.#OpenScience #ResearchMisconduct #AcademicMastodon #ScientificIntegrity #Hydrology #Geoscience #GIS #FediScience #Plagiarism #SvystunovaGully #COPE #Crossref #DataIntegrity #ImageManipulation #AcademicChatter #ResearchEthics #EarthScience #HigherEducation
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❗Update on Plagiarism and Falsification in Scientific Publications
Today, I officially submitted requests for the retraction of articles to the editorial boards of the journals "Land Reclamation and Water Management" and "Bulletin of NUWM".
❗Key facts of misconduct:
🔹 Plagiarism: Unauthorized use of my original relief map (2015) without citation.
🔹 Falsification: Intentional removal (retouching) of the author’s stamp with coordinates and date-time on site photographs.
🔹 Duplication: Publication of identical material in 2021 and 2024.Next steps:
In the event of attempts to covertly remove the articles without an official retraction notice, relevant complaints will be forwarded directly to @crossref and the international members of the editorial boards.#OpenScience #ResearchMisconduct #AcademicMastodon #ScientificIntegrity #Hydrology #Geoscience #GIS #FediScience #Plagiarism #SvystunovaGully #COPE #Crossref #DataIntegrity #ImageManipulation #AcademicChatter #ResearchEthics #EarthScience #HigherEducation
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❗Update on Plagiarism and Falsification in Scientific Publications
Today, I officially submitted requests for the retraction of articles to the editorial boards of the journals "Land Reclamation and Water Management" and "Bulletin of NUWM".
❗Key facts of misconduct:
🔹 Plagiarism: Unauthorized use of my original relief map (2015) without citation.
🔹 Falsification: Intentional removal (retouching) of the author’s stamp with coordinates and date-time on site photographs.
🔹 Duplication: Publication of identical material in 2021 and 2024.Next steps:
In the event of attempts to covertly remove the articles without an official retraction notice, relevant complaints will be forwarded directly to @crossref and the international members of the editorial boards.#OpenScience #ResearchMisconduct #AcademicMastodon #ScientificIntegrity #Hydrology #Geoscience #GIS #FediScience #Plagiarism #SvystunovaGully #COPE #Crossref #DataIntegrity #ImageManipulation #AcademicChatter #ResearchEthics #EarthScience #HigherEducation
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An Italian researcher has been ordered to pay back approximately $51,000 in grants due to "massive" scientific misconduct in two of her published books.
#Plagiarism #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificIntegrity
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"We propose a structured framework to help authors and journal editors and editorial offices distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable uses of generative AI in scientific publications. To operationalize this, we introduce a novel online reporting tool that guides authors in documenting AI use and generates a standardized, citable disclosure statement to ensure transparency and accountability."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41073-026-00212-3
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AI-generated reference errors are increasingly entering scientific papers, with tens of thousands of 2025 publications potentially affected. The issue is shifting from simple citation mistakes to fully fabricated sources.
🌐 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00969-z
#ArtificialIntelligence #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchPublishing #PeerReview #OpenScience
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AI-generated reference errors are increasingly entering scientific papers, with tens of thousands of 2025 publications potentially affected. The issue is shifting from simple citation mistakes to fully fabricated sources.
🌐 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00969-z
#ArtificialIntelligence #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchPublishing #PeerReview #OpenScience
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AI-generated reference errors are increasingly entering scientific papers, with tens of thousands of 2025 publications potentially affected. The issue is shifting from simple citation mistakes to fully fabricated sources.
🌐 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00969-z
#ArtificialIntelligence #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchPublishing #PeerReview #OpenScience
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AI-generated reference errors are increasingly entering scientific papers, with tens of thousands of 2025 publications potentially affected. The issue is shifting from simple citation mistakes to fully fabricated sources.
🌐 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00969-z
#ArtificialIntelligence #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchPublishing #PeerReview #OpenScience
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AI-generated reference errors are increasingly entering scientific papers, with tens of thousands of 2025 publications potentially affected. The issue is shifting from simple citation mistakes to fully fabricated sources.
🌐 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00969-z
#ArtificialIntelligence #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchPublishing #PeerReview #OpenScience
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RE: https://social.sciences.re/@tito/116176928282506850
via @sophiehuiberts
This is a punchy take on the state of science as an industry.
With respect to the specific quote below, it shows what most scientists don't realise about the following three things: the gouging by "reputable" commercial publishers, the "predation" by scam publishers, and the fraud of the shadiest scientists.
These all lie on a continuum.
#scientificintegrity #scientificpublishing #diamondOA #openaccess
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The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.
#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/
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The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.
#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/
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The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.
#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/
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The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.
#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/
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The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.
#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/
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Attack on #Science – #InspectorsGeneral Play an Important Role in Maintaining #ScientificIntegrity. They were Just Fired
If federal employees, including federal scientists, are concerned about waste, fraud, or abuse of actions and policies, they can raise concerns to IG’s office. For scientific integrity policy, if a scientist is being censored or told to manipulate their scientific work to meet political goals, their first stop should be raising the concern/
https://scilight.substack.com/p/attack-on-science-inspectors-general -
The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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Warum erfinden zweifelhafte Journals Artikel und listen real existierende Forschende in der Autorenzeile? Was haben sie davon? … Ein konkretes Beispiel samt weiterer Gedanken dazu in unserer "Freitags-Kolumne": https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3414.php. #scientificintegrity #publicationethics
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Glyphosate safety article retracted 8 years after Monsanto ghostwriting revealed in court
Nature paper retracted after one investigation finds data errors, another finds no misconduct
Did you know that Retraction Watch & the Retraction Watch Database are projects of The Center of #ScientificIntegrity?
Others include the Medical Evidence Project, the Hijacked Journal Checker, the Sleuths in Residence Program. Help support this work. -
Joining a new instance, posting a new #introduction.
After three years in the Fediverse, including two wonderful years at https://fediscience.org/@fresseng, I’m joining the first French instance that is both dedicated to and hosted by the academic community.
Academic and physicist, I also dabble in politics.
I will be posting about #openscience #fairdata #freesoftware #foss #CoARA #researchassesment #scientificintegrity #digitalinfrastructure ... and #Fediverse
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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
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As envisioned, a substantial peripheral benefit of this plan would be recapture of funds now being diverted to support the unquenchable needs of psychologically damaged capitalists.
"The number of low-quality or fraudulent publications is rising to hundreds of thousands per year, which—if unchecked—will damage the scientific and economic progress of our societies. The result is editor and reviewer fatigue, irreproducible experiments, misguided experiments, disinformation and escalating costs that devour funding from taxpayers intended for research. It is high time to reevaluate current publishing models and outline a global plan to stop this unhealthy development. A conference was therefore organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to draft an action plan with specific recommendations, as follows. (i) Academia should resume control of publishing using non-profit publishing models (e.g. diamond open-access). (ii) Adjust incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity, in a reputation economy where the gaming of publication numbers and citation metrics distorts the perception of academic excellence. (iii) Implement mechanisms to prevent and detect fake publications and fraud which are independent of publishers. (iv) Draft and implement legislations, regulations and policies to increase publishing quality and integrity. This is a call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort."
#ScientificIntegrity
#AcademicFraudhttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.251805?af=R
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cdc-turmoil-monarez-senior-officials-1.7620484
The courageous resistance shown by these CDC officials is what we should expect from scientists generally. My greatest respect to them.
#CDC #ScientificIntegrity #Disinformation #Fascism #USPol #RFKJr #Trump -
#EPA Pulls Down Updated #ScientificIntegrity Policy
The policy’s removal follows Trump’s May 2025 executive order, “Restoring Gold Standard Science,” which directed all federal agencies to roll back scientific integrity policies to the versions in place before January 20, 2021. It replaced the Biden-era reforms with political oversight, requiring each agency to reevaluate and potentially rescind updated safeguards and operate under older scientific integrity policies.
https://scilight.substack.com/p/epa-pulls-down-updated-scientific -
"The ability to tell the truth, especially when it does not suit any particularly partisan aims, is an essential prerequisite for a free society. Scientists can leverage their substantial social standing and trustworthiness to preserve this vital ingredient. Under authoritarian conditions in the Soviet Union, many dissident leaders were prominent scientists, circulating underground writings that criticized the pseudoscience that the communist state approved and promoted. These materials helped to break through the wall of invincibility that the government tried to create—even when the dissidents themselves paid a price. Indeed, the US government used to prioritize breaking down autocrats’ control of information throughout countries behind the Iron Curtain, by supporting dissident and alternative news sources that could break barriers to truth.
Every would-be dissident scientist has a different tolerance for risk, and efforts to reestablish public sources of trusted scientific information can’t fully recreate the US science apparatus now being dismantled. But alternative institutions offer a promising pathway for preserving an essential role of science in public life, while maintaining democratic principles that enable a free society. Those in the science community who are willing and able to be more visible can step up. Acting together will be more impactful than going it alone."
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aea9328?af=R
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"Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some concern that these pressures may compel some to defect from the scientific research ethos—i.e., fail to make genuine contributions to the production of knowledge or to the training of an expert workforce—the focus has largely been on the actions of lone individuals. Recently, however, reports of coordinated scientific fraud activities have increased. Some suggest that the ease of communication provided by the internet and open-access publishing have created the conditions for the emergence of entities—paper mills (i.e., sellers of mass-produced low quality and fabricated research), brokers (i.e., conduits between producers and publishers of fraudulent research), predatory journals, who do not conduct any quality controls on submissions—that facilitate systematic scientific fraud. Here, we demonstrate through case studies that i) individuals have cooperated to publish papers that were eventually retracted in a number of journals, ii) brokers have enabled publication in targeted journals at scale, and iii), within a field of science, not all subfields are equally targeted for scientific fraud. Our results reveal some of the strategies that enable the entities promoting scientific fraud to evade interventions. Our final analysis suggests that this ability to evade interventions is enabling the number of fraudulent publications to grow at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science."
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A powerful new study (Richardson et al., @PNASNews 2025) reveals the scale of systematic research fraud: fake papers are doubling every 1.5 years - ten times faster than real science. Retractions and deindexing can't keep up. Journals look away. Universities stay silent. Ministries protect their own.
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420092122
The authors call for independent, conflict-free structures with real power to act.
#ResearchFraud #ScientificIntegrity #PaperMills #AcademicEthics
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The COVID-19 pandemic transformed this scientist into a research-integrity sleuth
Lonni Besançon has faced online abuse, threats and legal challenges. But he remains proud of his service to science and society.
#science #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificIntegrity #harassment
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The COVID-19 pandemic transformed this scientist into a research-integrity sleuth
Lonni Besançon has faced online abuse, threats and legal challenges. But he remains proud of his service to science and society.
#science #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificIntegrity #harassment
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"Corporate ghost-writing is a form of scientific fraud: a paper is falsely presented as the work of people other than its actual authors. When such papers circulate, they undermine the integrity of scientific research and policy decisions based wholly or in part on that research. This paper examines the impact of a single ghost-written study, Williams, Kroes, and Munro (2000) (WKM2000), published in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology. The paper was crafted by Monsanto to support claims of the safety of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup. Despite revelations of its ghostwritten nature in the Monsanto Papers, the paper has not been retracted and continues to be cited. Using a case study approach, we trace the impact of WKM2000 across three domains. We find that WKM2000 has exerted considerable influence over two decades, shaping public understanding, scientific discourse, and policy decisions. WKM2000 has been frequently cited on Wikipedia to support the safety of glyphosate; attempts to contextualize its ghostwritten origins have been repeatedly reversed or removed, illustrating how corporate-sponsored science infiltrates public knowledge platforms. An analysis of policy and governance documents citing WKM2000 revealed that the vast majority referenced it uncritically. In academic literature, WKM2000 is in the top 0.1 % by citation count among papers discussing glyphosate, indicating broad uptake, with minimal acknowledgment of conflict of interest. Our findings underscore the need for stricter journal policies to screen and retract ghostwritten papers, in order to safeguard science integrity, as well as public health and safety."
#ScientificIntegrity
#glyophosphatehttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901125001765?dgcid=rss_sd_all
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Wenn in deiner Publikationsliste plötzlich ein Artikel zu viel auftaucht, hat womöglich jemand deinen Namen für die Autorenzeile eines Fake-Papers gekapert. Ein Beispiel dafür in unserem Blog: https://www.laborjournal.de/blog/?p=14366 #PredatoryJournals #ScientificIntegrity #ScientificPublishing
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Maintaining #ScientificIntegrity in a hostile environment-- written for scientists by scientists .
Classification and responses to threat levels are not only useful for academics but also helpful for the rest of us to understand how hard choices must be made in arduous circumstances.
''The Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to scholars navigating the growing global trend of democratic backsliding and autocratization, in particular in the U.S.''
There are a couple of Skeptical Science alumni in the author pool.
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Oops?
"Bak-Coleman and others say the reformers should have seen that their claims and concerns could be weaponized by antiscience movements, and done more to prevent that. 'The writing was on the wall in huge letters,' says Stephan Lewandowsky, a cognitive scientist at the University of Bristol, who points to attempts by the tobacco industry to introduce 'sound science' legislation and sponsor 'research integrity' symposia as early as the 1990s.
Without overenthusisam progress arguably may be impossible, but hype also often leads to fits and starts.
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Eleven studies by Spanish scientist Rafael Luque are retracted due to fraudulent practices.
A new tool reveals the alleged cheating committed for years by the chemist, who was suspiciously prolific.
With his 11 studies eliminated by publishers, he is already “in the top 0.1% of the most retracted authors of all time”.
#Science #RafaelLuque #ScientificIntegrity #Argos #Research #DataManipulation #Retraction #Academia #Cheating #Chemistry #Wiley #Elsevier #Scitility
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Paul Krugman highlights a looming threat posed by a potential second Trump administration to American science and intellectual pursuits. The MAGA coalition's anti-science stance, budget cuts to crucial research funding, and attempts to politicize science risk undermining America's technological leadership and attracting global talent. This erosion could significantly weaken the country's intellectual and economic strength. Read the full article for insights on this critical issue. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/nobody-expected-the-maga-inquisition #PaulKrugman #AmericanScience #MAGA #ScientificIntegrity #BudgetCuts
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🤯 The MAHA report, promoted by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., claims to rely on “gold-standard” science — but a close look reveals:
🔍 Nonexistent studies cited
🔍 Broken links & wrong authors
🔍 Misrepresented conclusionsInstead of offering solid ground for public health reform, the report exposes cracks in scientific rigor and accountability. 📉
This is not just a paperwork issue — it’s a trust issue in how we communicate research to shape national health policy.
AI generated? AI hallucinations?
How can leaders, researchers, and the public rebuild confidence in evidence-based policy when foundational claims are riddled with errors?
#HealthLeadership #ScientificIntegrity #PolicyMaking #PublicTrust #EvidenceBasedPractice
https://www.notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report-citation-errors
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[After the #Trump hurricane Dorian incident,]… #NOAA updated their policy…said NOAA’s #ScientificIntegrity officer. The #policy includes guidelines on how #scientists should conduct themselves, & asks them to articulate their findings openly & clearly to the #public. It establishes that “credible allegations of #fabrication, #falsification, #plagiarism, & #interference w/or undue #influence on accurate public reporting of #science” can result in “personnel actions” & referral to the IG’s office.
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Disappointed in PLOS ONE. Why do they allow this statement, but fail to check if it is actually true?
#PLOS #PLOSONE #PhD #science #academia #publishing #scientificintegrity
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Apparently, when some scientific journals publish an Expression of Concern on an article, they don't display it on the article itself. So, readers have no way of knowing an EoC exists, which rather defeats the purpose.
Refuse to review for or submit to journals that do this, & tell them why.
#ScientificIntegrity #PublishingEthics #AcademicJournals #publishing
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As envisioned, a substantial peripheral benefit of this plan would be recapture of funds now being diverted to support the unquenchable needs of psychologically damaged capitalists.
"The number of low-quality or fraudulent publications is rising to hundreds of thousands per year, which—if unchecked—will damage the scientific and economic progress of our societies. The result is editor and reviewer fatigue, irreproducible experiments, misguided experiments, disinformation and escalating costs that devour funding from taxpayers intended for research. It is high time to reevaluate current publishing models and outline a global plan to stop this unhealthy development. A conference was therefore organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to draft an action plan with specific recommendations, as follows. (i) Academia should resume control of publishing using non-profit publishing models (e.g. diamond open-access). (ii) Adjust incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity, in a reputation economy where the gaming of publication numbers and citation metrics distorts the perception of academic excellence. (iii) Implement mechanisms to prevent and detect fake publications and fraud which are independent of publishers. (iv) Draft and implement legislations, regulations and policies to increase publishing quality and integrity. This is a call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort."
#ScientificIntegrity
#AcademicFraudhttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.251805?af=R
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As envisioned, a substantial peripheral benefit of this plan would be recapture of funds now being diverted to support the unquenchable needs of psychologically damaged capitalists.
"The number of low-quality or fraudulent publications is rising to hundreds of thousands per year, which—if unchecked—will damage the scientific and economic progress of our societies. The result is editor and reviewer fatigue, irreproducible experiments, misguided experiments, disinformation and escalating costs that devour funding from taxpayers intended for research. It is high time to reevaluate current publishing models and outline a global plan to stop this unhealthy development. A conference was therefore organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to draft an action plan with specific recommendations, as follows. (i) Academia should resume control of publishing using non-profit publishing models (e.g. diamond open-access). (ii) Adjust incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity, in a reputation economy where the gaming of publication numbers and citation metrics distorts the perception of academic excellence. (iii) Implement mechanisms to prevent and detect fake publications and fraud which are independent of publishers. (iv) Draft and implement legislations, regulations and policies to increase publishing quality and integrity. This is a call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort."
#ScientificIntegrity
#AcademicFraudhttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.251805?af=R
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As envisioned, a substantial peripheral benefit of this plan would be recapture of funds now being diverted to support the unquenchable needs of psychologically damaged capitalists.
"The number of low-quality or fraudulent publications is rising to hundreds of thousands per year, which—if unchecked—will damage the scientific and economic progress of our societies. The result is editor and reviewer fatigue, irreproducible experiments, misguided experiments, disinformation and escalating costs that devour funding from taxpayers intended for research. It is high time to reevaluate current publishing models and outline a global plan to stop this unhealthy development. A conference was therefore organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to draft an action plan with specific recommendations, as follows. (i) Academia should resume control of publishing using non-profit publishing models (e.g. diamond open-access). (ii) Adjust incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity, in a reputation economy where the gaming of publication numbers and citation metrics distorts the perception of academic excellence. (iii) Implement mechanisms to prevent and detect fake publications and fraud which are independent of publishers. (iv) Draft and implement legislations, regulations and policies to increase publishing quality and integrity. This is a call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort."
#ScientificIntegrity
#AcademicFraudhttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.251805?af=R
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As envisioned, a substantial peripheral benefit of this plan would be recapture of funds now being diverted to support the unquenchable needs of psychologically damaged capitalists.
"The number of low-quality or fraudulent publications is rising to hundreds of thousands per year, which—if unchecked—will damage the scientific and economic progress of our societies. The result is editor and reviewer fatigue, irreproducible experiments, misguided experiments, disinformation and escalating costs that devour funding from taxpayers intended for research. It is high time to reevaluate current publishing models and outline a global plan to stop this unhealthy development. A conference was therefore organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to draft an action plan with specific recommendations, as follows. (i) Academia should resume control of publishing using non-profit publishing models (e.g. diamond open-access). (ii) Adjust incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity, in a reputation economy where the gaming of publication numbers and citation metrics distorts the perception of academic excellence. (iii) Implement mechanisms to prevent and detect fake publications and fraud which are independent of publishers. (iv) Draft and implement legislations, regulations and policies to increase publishing quality and integrity. This is a call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort."
#ScientificIntegrity
#AcademicFraudhttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.251805?af=R