Image manipulation: how AI tools are helping journals fight back
Discover how academic journals are using AI to identify problematic images prior to publication.
Image duplication in scientific papers: how AI outperforms humans at detecting research misconduct
Discover how innovative AI tools are revolutionising the fight against scientific misconduct, eclipsing a human expert’s efforts in a fraction of the time.
Raise the Papermill Alarm! A new tool for identifying potential fake articles
Read about the new weapon in the fight against bogus scientific research articles.
Spotting fake images in scientific research: insights from science integrity consultant Elisabeth Bik
Elisabeth Bik discusses the importance of science integrity and the issue of manipulated images within scientific publications.
Is health research no longer to be trusted?
Learn why one expert thinks it’s time to assume all clinical research is fraudulent until there is evidence to the contrary.
How artificial intelligence is changing the landscape of scientific communication
Find out how artificial intelligence tools are influencing the future of scientific communication.
Research integrity in the COVID-19 era: insights from Retraction Watch co-founder Ivan Oransky
Read Ivan Oransky’s take on the retraction landscape and his perspectives on how to tackle research integrity issues in the future.
Research integrity across the Atlantic: our summary of the first Biomedical Transparency Summit series webinar
Find out more about what was covered during the first 2021 webinar from the Center for Biomedical Research Transparency.
Research integrity: putting principles into practice
Find out how principles of research integrity can be put into practice to combat fraud and misconduct.
[VIDEO] Understanding text recycling
Learn more about text recycling from the Text Recycling Research Project in this recent webinar hosted by COPE.
Is there too much reliance on computers to detect plagiarism?
Plagiarism detection software and the originality scores they generate are useful, but find out why human input is a fundamental part of the process.
Insights from the new Retraction Watch database
An analysis by Science Magazine of Retraction Watch’s new database challenges a number of common perceptions surrounding retractions and reveals some important key themes.
An algorithm to police figure duplication?
Here’s how the power of machine learning could be harnessed to automate the search for fraudulent figure duplications in submitted manuscripts.
BBC investigation suggests official data underestimate scale of ‘fake research’ in UK universities
The pressure on top universities to publish breakthrough basic research in top ranking journals has never been greater, as this can have a direct impact on the degree of funding … Continue Reading BBC investigation suggests official data underestimate scale of ‘fake research’ in UK universities
New paraphrasing tools make plagiarism harder to detect
Many universities and academic journals now use plagiarism detection software, such as Turnitin®, to identify essays and research papers that have borrowed excessively from previously published work. However, in a … Continue Reading New paraphrasing tools make plagiarism harder to detect
[VIDEO] Highlights from the 2016 conference of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE)
In this video, Rachael Lammey, Member and Community Outreach at Crossref and Council Member of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE), gives a summary of the 13th EASE Conference, … Continue Reading [VIDEO] Highlights from the 2016 conference of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE)