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Our latest: Explosion of formulaic research articles, including inappropriate study designs and false discoveries, based on the NHANES US national health database journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… #badscience #papermills #opendata

Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies go.theregister.com/feed/www.there…

New paper: The Black Market of Publications in #Peru: Paper Mills and Authorship for Sale 🥳🥳 Authors: Joel Alhuay-Quispe and Victoria Yance-Yupari DOI: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/le… Cientificos.pe Joel Alhuay 🇵🇪 Victoria YanceYupari Alonso Estrada Cuzcano Silvana Aquino Remigio

Shoddy study designs and false findings using a large public health dataset portend future risk of exploitation by AI and paper mills, a study and accompanying editorial conclude. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

International Research Integrity Conference. I am arranging this in Sydney in November 16-18th 2025. researchintegrityconf.com Note the excellent speaker list. Contact me. I am also moving to Bsky too Simon Gandevia.bsky.social

🚨In a crisis, scientific data is at risk: wars, cyberattacks, disasters. What’s your plan to protect it? Join Prof. Stephanie Burton (U. of Pretoria), moderating a key webinar by IAP & International Science Council 🗓 21 May |⏰12:00 UTC 🔗unesco-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 📰Stay updated interacademies.org/news/e-bulletin

Join us on Wed May 28 2025, at 9:00 AM PST for a 2-hour online #ResearchIntegrity symposium as we build towards the #WCRI2026 conference in Vancouver. Videos will be made available after the event: vimeo.com/user175668074/… Programme and free registration: wcri2026.org/online-symposi…

Low-quality papers are surging by exploiting public data sets and AI: Paper mills are also likely contributing to “false discoveries” science.org/content/articl… via Cathleen O'Grady

A big thank to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum for featuring me in their alumni spotlight for my visualization and research integrity work. Their post is here: heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/young-research…

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#RecommendedRead: Byrne, J.A., Abalkina, A., Akinduro-Aje, O., Christopher, J., Eaton, S.E., Joshi, N., Scheffler, U., Wise, N.H., and Wright, J. (2024) 'A call for research to address the threat of paper mills', PLoS Biol 22(11): e3002931. Available at: doi.org/10.1371/journa…

👉 PubPeerBot comment "... we submitted the following letter & reappraised checklist to JAMA Internal Medicine, detailing numerous integrity concerns for this trial... there has been no public acknowledgement...of any of these concerns." pubpeer.com/publications/2…

A group of research integrity experts has launched a series of guidelines on how to be an effective sleuth. My latest for Chemistry World: chemistryworld.com/news/guideline… Prof Jennifer Byrne 🧬

I had a great time delivering the workshop for postgraduate researchers and research staff today at the School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering University of Brighton Where to Publish: Navigating Citation Databases and Journal-Level Metrics #bibliometrics

"Citation issues cost these 20 journals their impact factors this year". Because the research community is unable to police the explosion of questionable journals we are reliant on the commercial operators. We need the same attention to paper mills etc. retractionwatch.com/2025/06/18/cla…

A group of research integrity experts has launched a series of guidelines on how to be an effective sleuth. chemistryworld.com/news/guideline…

How about a podcast on research integrity featuring big names in the field (e.g., Elisabeth Bik Ivan Oransky) and, incidentally, yours truly? Go listen to open.spotify.com/show/2AuVl4wye…

"'Paper mills' are polluting the world of scientific literature with their false studies, researchers lament." ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/21741…