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
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.
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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" 🚀👍
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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 @MDPIOpenAccess and 12 in @ElsevierConnect journals.
Thank you to Prof @JAByrneSci for visiting #AusHSI to share insights into research #papermills.
Key takeaways:
💡Think about what you read, cite, review and where you publish.
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Meet our presenter: @Image_Integrity
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.
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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 ❤️ @FEBSnews
In a world of paper mills and misconduct, retractions have massively gone up 😱 better safe than sorry: trustworthy journals. Thanks to @Image_Integrity for the career skill workshop at #YSF@FEBSnews 👏
The ramifications of this @smh 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_J_Oste & @JAByrneSci for yr work. smh.com.au/national/the-sydn…
🚨 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
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#OpenBiology welcomes original, high impact research in cell and developmental biology, molecular and structural biology, biochemistry, neuroscience, immunology, microbiology and genetics. Find out more: royalsocietypublishing.org/j…#OpenScience
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.
@SmritiMallapaty writes @Naturenature.com/articles/d41586-0…
#WCRI2024 participants, you are more than welcome to visit my poster (PP-189) on #papermills. I have a 'Find an issue' game for you, designed both for online and on-site participants. Play here papermills.tilda.ws
Congrats 👏👏👏 to our very own PRIMeR team member, the amazing @Danielle_J_Oste who presented "Non-verifiable cell lines in cancer research papers describing human gene research" (PP-068) at #WCRI2024. @JAByrneSci
Article available ⬇️
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The last plenary @karinv@RMIT describes the "the good, the bad and the ugly" on #generativeAI. A fantastic overview of everything that is wrong, and great with genAI. The possibilities are endless, and they are both scary and exciting!