Our Research Integrity Manager @mattjhodgkinson Hodgkinson spoke to Gemma Conroy at @Nature about the use of ChatGPT and other generative AI by paper mills.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02477-w

#PublicationEthics #NatureNews #ChatGPT #PaperMills #AIethics

"Experts say there’s a balance to strike in the academic world when using generative AI—it could make the writing process more efficient & help researchers more clearly convey their findings. But the tech ... has also dropped fake references into its responses, made things up, and reiterated sexist and racist content from the internet, all of which would be problematic if included in published scientific writing."
https://www.wired.com/story/use-of-ai-is-seeping-into-academic-journals-and-its-proving-difficult-to-detect/
#AIwriting #ChatBots #PublicationEthics #AcademicMastodon

Image sleuth @ElisabethBik is back on Mastodon 🕵️‍♂️ :mastodon: 🎉

https://med-mastodon.com/@ElisabethBik/110969401224111581

#ImageForensics #ImageManipulation #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicMastodon

"Transparently distributing credit – and censure – where it is due will promote fairness and team science while discouraging the sorts of slack practices that got Tessier-Lavigne into trouble." - Paul Ayris of UCL promotes CRediT.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/tessier-lavigne-debacle-underlines-case-more-transparent-authorship
#PublicationEthics

“Basically, when I start looking into a group of scientists or a scientist whose work I’m interested in for whatever reason, @PubPeer is the first place I’ll go to see if questions have been raised.” - @stephaniemlee

https://journalistsresource.org/home/pubpeer-research-misconduct-tips-journalists/

#ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #PubPeer #Journalism #SciComm

Would you?

#PeerReview #ChatGPT #YouWouldntDownloadACar #YouWouldntStealAMeme #AIethics #PublicationEthics

"STM Solutions, the standards and technology arm of STM , is developing the Integrity Hub on behalf of STM members. Current activities include creating a Paper Mill Checker Tool and a Duplicate Submission Detection Tool."
- Deborah Kahn, COPE trustee 🧵

https://publicationethics.org/news/paper-mills-united-act

#PublicationEthics #PaperMills #JournalPublication #ResearchIntegrity #ScienceAndTechnology #STMAssociation #CommitteeOnPublicationEthics

"If you use a chatbot to create or revise text, know the caveats and risks. Ask yourself why you are using a tool that isn’t validated: you’d (hopefully) not do that in another part of your research process."

Our Research Integrity Manager @mattjhodgkinson considers the integrity and ethical hurdles faced when using 'AI' tools like ChatGPT.

https://ukrio.org/ukrio-resources/ai-in-research/

#AIethics #AIwriting #AIwritingTools #ChatGPT #LLMs #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #ChatBots

🧵 Recommendations to Enhance Partnerships Between Institutions and Journals to Address Concerns About Research Misconduct, by Susan Garfinkel et al. in JAMA Network Open.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2806481

#PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #Partnerships

Classic citation manipulation 🚩

"“Our team has a wider research knowledge and experience that has been converted into high impact publications.” It is followed by more than a dozen citations of unrelated Saveetha publications."

https://www.science.org/content/article/did-nasty-publishing-scheme-help-indian-dental-school-win-high-rankings

#PublicationEthics #Citations #Bibliometrics #UniversityRankings

"Researchers are under brutal pressure to publish studies. Their salary increases, promotions, project funding and social prestige depend on evaluations in which their performance is measured practically by weight. This system — known as “publish or perish” — has created monsters."

HT @JessButler

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-06-04/a-researcher-who-publishes-a-study-every-two-days-reveals-the-darker-side-of-science.html

#ResearchAssessment #PublicationEthics #PublishOrPerish

John Willinsky of the Public Knowledge Project (who run OJS) gives us a sneak preview of the Publication Facts Label, part of their Journal Integrity Initiative. Aims to be an industry standard, using the US nutrition facts label as a model.

Proposes a button, like CrossMark, that will show metadata about the journal, e.g., publisher, editors, acceptance rate, indexing, and article, e.g., peer reviewers, COIs, data sharing, funding.

#pkp #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #EASEevents

Ethics of #PeerReview: @catmacOA presents about when things go wrong.

Manipulation at scale by #PaperMills and peer review rings is rife in the industry, esp. in special issues. In a year, Hindawi identified 1700+ compromised articles to retract, using data analysis and manual checks. Mass retraction, using a standardised notice, does not wait for author responses if there is a sufficient signal of manipulation or paper mills.

#EASEevents #PublicationEthics

Developing a quality editorial board. Outgoing EASE past-president, @pippasmart, shows the levels of editors: wider family, the core team, and support staff.

Editors need to know #PublicationEthics, and be committed, collegiate, and confident. They should be objective but have a good network to promote the journal.

Core competencies of journal editors: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0927-0

Problems: unaccountable, abuse of position, little or no training, low diversity.

#EASEevents #JournalEditing

RT @C0PE on 🐦
NEW GUIDANCE
Best practice for guest-edited collections.
- Find out more about what to consider when managing collections.
- Includes checklists for creating guest-edited collections.
https://doi.org/10.24318/7cKLAia0
#PublicationEthics #ScholComm #JournalEditing #CommitteeOnPublicationEthics

Best practices for guest edited collections from COPE: recommendations for journals & publishers for handling collections edited by guest editors. The potential risks & ethical issues are highlighted, as well as a checklist for creating guest edited collections, steps to ensure collections are edited according to valid publishing practices & ethical standards, & clarification of the ethical responsibilities throughout the various stages of the process.
https://doi.org/10.24318/7cKLAia0
#PublicationEthics

Many retracted articles are cited without acknowledging the retraction, notes Ivan Oransky. The Retraction Watch database is linked to many literature databases - you can get alerts to avoid getting caught out.

#UKRIOevents #Retractions #PublicationEthics

Signs of change seen by @ivanoransky - #PublicationEthics "czars": https://www.statnews.com/2018/11/21/research-misconduct-journals-hiring-research-integrity-czars/
- Researchers "doing the right thing" on retractions
#UKRIOevents #Retractions

A major reason for a rise in #Retractions is post-publication #PeerReview, especially in @PubPeer notes @ivanoransky

Sleuths look for anomalies in figures, text, statistics, and data.

https://retractionwatch.com/2018/06/17/meet-the-scientific-sleuths-ten-whove-had-an-impact-on-the-scientific-literature/

#UKRIOevents #PublicationEthics #Whistleblowers

Current retraction rate is 0.1%: @ivanoransky thinks it should be 2%, based on work by @microbiomdigest (others say 5-10%). #UKRIOevents #PublicationEthics