Economist outs another Indian university’s rankings-boosting scheme when they refuse to pay him

Mohd Asif Shah On May 9, a university administrator in Afghanistan threatened in a LinkedIn post to expose what he called a publishing scam by private universities in India. “These institutions con…

Shared responsibility to address questionable research practices? – A study of perceived efficacy...

In response to widespread concerns about research integrity, recent years have seen numerous efforts to safeguard against research misconduct and questionable research practices. Research-performin...

State of Scholarship Report

Introduction We presume that our readers recognize the value of the humanistic disciplines and their central place in the modern research university. The humanities and the social sciences take as...

Scammers hijacked the identity of a famous Oregon cancer doctor to pitch ivermectin online

The bogus accounts – and others like them – alarm doctors worried about how the misinformation can harm unsuspecting patients desperate for help.

Science flags paper that found AI chatbots help debunk conspiracy theories 

Science has issued an expression of concern for a highly publicized study looking into whether conversations with AI chatbots could convince conspiracy theorists to abandon their beliefs. The move …

DU teacher finds his PhD data in another faculty member’s thesis; plagiarism row exposes blind spot...

NEW DELHI: In the 1990s, Kumar Ram Krishna spent years learning to read and write Dhundhari, a language that originated in Rajasthan and only a handful of people can read. He used it to trace trade...

Shanghai University removes dean for fabricating data

Publisher investigating two more papers on glyphosate safety over ghostwriting claims

Mike Mozart/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Tayor & Francis is investigating two papers about the weed killer Roundup following claims the articles were ghostwritten by the company that developed the herbic…

A framework for the responsible use of bibliometrics in research evaluation

Scientometrics - The use of bibliometric indicators in research evaluation has been widely debated, particularly in light of concerns about their unintended effects, methodological limitations, and...

How novel is that research paper? Competition to quantify concept crowns winner

The automated tool could be used to help journals vet submissions

What was not discussed (enough) at the colloquium of the French Research Integrity Office

I attended last Friday the colloquium of the French Research Integrity Office which took place in the impressive and solemn settings of the Palais du Luxembourg, the French Senate. The meeting was …

F1000's VeriXiv introduces trust badges for preprints - Research Information

System provides readers with visible confirmation of the verification checks completed before research is posted online

Protein name confusion created antibody mix-up affecting hundreds of papers

Cancer and cell aging studies may have relied on antibodies to incorrect molecule