Safeguarding scientific image quality and integrity: what more can be done?
Explore how publishers, institutions, and researchers are improving the quality of scientific images.
Should data sharing be the next checklist item in reporting guidelines?
Find out what the EQUATOR executive group are planning in an effort to promote open science.
Uncovering scientific ERRORs: can financial rewards work?
Find out how the ERROR project pays reviewers to identify mistakes in published papers.
EQUATOR and COS join forces to bring open science to the fore
Plans for a strategic 3-year partnership between the EQUATOR Network and Centre for Open Science.
Building trust: ACCORD guidelines for reporting consensus methods
Read about a new checklist developed to facilitate transparent reporting of consensus methods.
Monitoring open science: what key practices should we measure?
Discover the results of a consensus study in the biomedical research community.
The reality of incomplete reporting: can journal editors do more to help?
A recent systematic review calls for journal editors to urgently review their submission policies.
How does failure to falsify influence the reliability of scientific research?
Read about a proposed way to tackle the reproducibility crisis in research and accelerate scientific progress.
Is it time to redesign peer review?
Read about proposed strategies to make peer review less burdensome and improve the quality of published research.
Is enough being done to account for the role of sex in medical research?
Find out why sex matters in medical research and why you should consider sex and gender guidelines when reporting data.
Are your AI-generated data reproducible?
AI-based science comes under scrutiny: read about the growing crisis in machine learning.
Are research data FAIR enough?
Find out why, despite implementation of mandates, current research data may not be FAIR.
Will a cross-publisher integrity hub aid the battle against fake research?
Publishers join with STM to develop new standardised tools to tackle paper mills.
DECIDE-AI: will it make the development of artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support systems more robust?
New guidelines aim to improve early clinical testing of AI-based systems.
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.
Data sharing and reporting still suboptimal in vaccine trials
A recent analysis of randomised controlled vaccine trials suggests there are still improvements to be made.