Is it time to redesign peer review?
Read about proposed strategies to make peer review less burdensome and improve the quality of published research.
Questionable research practices: should we be worried?
Read more on the results of a survey that asked 47,000 academics about their opinions, behaviours, and experiences surrounding research integrity.
International Women’s Day 2023: can medical publishing do more to #EmbraceEquity?
Women remain underrepresented in medical publishing; we reflect on recent posts from The Publication Plan looking at contributory factors and steps to equity.
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.
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.
Transparent peer review: are authors willing to publish referee reports?
Read about the results of Nature’s transparent peer review pilot and how it could benefit the research community.
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.
How accurate are conflict-of-interest disclosures in high-impact journals?
Find out how authors’ self-disclosures compare with payment data reported by the medical industry.
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.
Language-generating AI in science: transformational or deformational?
Read about the potential impacts of large language models, and what needs to happen to ensure they benefit, rather than hinder, scientific fields.
Addressing race and ethnicity in medical literature
Learn about the current failings in race and ethnicity reporting in regulatory documents and medical literature and how they can be overcome.
The reality of data sharing behaviour: do researchers share their data as promised?
A recent study revealed that many researchers fail to comply with their data sharing statement.
CHEERS 2022 statement: reporting guidance for health economic evaluations gets a makeover
Read about the new 28-item checklist developed to aid decision-making in health economic evaluations.
GRReaT expectations: are editable templates the future of manuscript writing?
Read about EQUATOR Network’s updated GoodReports website, new downloadable and editable article templates and a call for researchers to help test whether the templates improve research reporting.
NIH bid to tackle reproducibility crisis – is data sharing the answer?
Read about the upcoming NIH requirement to include a data management and sharing plan in all grant applications for projects collecting scientific data.