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🚨 Inappropriate image manipulation New to the flowchart: • option for immediate retraction under certain conditions • recommend publishing an expression of concern while an institutional investigation is ongoing #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics ow.ly/SMAN50S7hCE

Elite researchers in China say they had ‘no choice’ but to commit misconduct Anonymous interviewees say they engaged in unethical behaviour to protect their jobs — although others say study presents an overly negative view. Smriti Mallapaty writes nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

The ramifications of this The Sydney Morning Herald story on medical research are v. concerning. Once misinformation is published, even if retracted, it still exists to be quoted and requoted. Tks to Danielle Oste & Prof Jennifer Byrne 🧬 for yr work. smh.com.au/national/the-s…

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Patricia Monteiro In a world of paper mills and misconduct, retractions have massively gone up 😱 better safe than sorry: trustworthy journals. Thanks to Jana Christopher for the career skill workshop at #YSF FEBS 👏

Delighted to be running workshops with #YSF today at the breathtakingly beautiful Università di Pavia, est. in 1361, one of the oldest universities in the world! Fantastic ❤️ FEBS

Very interesting data- indicates that business models used by MDPI & Frontiers rely on new journal creation (2- and nearly 4-fold increases from 2019-2023, respectively), as opposed to increased article processing charges.

Free to access link: bmj.com/cgi/content/fu… World Conf Research Integrity Norin Del Retraction Watch Scholarly Kitchen Peer Review Congress #PRC10 The Embassy of Good Science embassysci.bsky.social COPE

Looking forward to speaking in HighWire's Best Practice webinar in August 😃 FEBS

Meet our presenter: Jana Christopher Jana has worked in Image Integrity since 2011 & is currently working as an Image Data Integrity Analyst at FEBS Press. She will talk about the Current State of Image Manipulation & False Image Detection. Register now us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Thank you to Prof Prof Jennifer Byrne 🧬 for visiting #AusHSI to share insights into research #papermills. Key takeaways: 💡Think about what you read, cite, review and where you publish. ✅Subscribe to Retraction Watch: retractionwatch.com ⚙️Install pubpeer: pubpeer.com

"How #PaperMills are undermining scientific publishing" 🙏🏼Dr Hank Chambers @kidbonz for inviting me to discuss his editorial in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology Mac Keith Press: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dm… youtube.com/watch?v=7mKPtK…

Over 6 months, a papermill advertised authorship of 24 papers, across 2 Telegram channels and 1 Whatsapp group. 13 of them were published, one in MDPI and 12 in Elsevier journals.

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Mircea Ivan is working to launch an initiative called Agora to bring more transparency – and restore trust – to the scientific publishing process. "Science has to be discussed in a public space. It cannot be driven by profit" 🚀👍 youarecurrent.com/2024/09/12/res…

Duncan E. Wright argues that problems of getting peer reviewers, research fraud, paper mills, predatory journals, and trivial papers are all symptoms of research culture emphasizing quantity over quality. doi.org/10.1002/1873-3…

40 million tomans ($950) for 2nd position in a Wiley paper. $50 for a citation.

FEBS Press Image Integrity Analyst Jana Christopher talks to Diana Kwon about the rise of AI-generated fake images in the literature in this new article in Nature News ➡️rb.gy/a659vc #AI #generativeAI #papermills #dataintegrity

"A call for research to address the threat of paper mills" 5 key questions that need resourcing & support Proof: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… 💙 Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social Jana Christopher Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton🇨🇦 Nick Wise Jen Wright #United2Act co-authors & members COPE STM PLOS Biology