"61% of German PhD students considered discontinuing their PhD, citing mental health issues, poor supervision, and high workloads. Satisfaction with supervision correlated strongly with feedback quality, leadership, and communication skills." #ResearchIntegrity #Chemsky #CompChemSky #PiSky

Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)@gdch.de · 4w ago

🔬 Was belastet Chemie-Promovierende? Daten statt Bauchgefühl: Das JCF legt mit „Working Under Pressure" eine Studie vor – basierend auf über 700 Befragten in Deutschland. Reinlesen und mitdiskutieren: doi.org/10.1002/chem.71358 #Promotion #Chemie #JCF

A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Informa of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges.

Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges

iStock A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges…

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"AI detectors may never beat fraud. Changing how science rewards its researchers might be the only fix that does" ...yes, indeed! #ResearchIntegrity #CompChemSky #ChemSky #PiSky

Can we stop AI from flooding scientific journals?

AI detectors may never beat fraud. Changing how science rewards its researchers might be the only fix that does

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Talking about #ResearchIntegrity at the Department of Chemistry, Kyung Hee University, Seoul Thank you again, Youngmi Kim, for the kind invitation, and the audience for the thoughtful discussion.

Changing the incentives in Scientific Publishing: maybe a yearly limit on the total number of papers helps? here discussed by M. A. Cheema: www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto... #ResearchIntegrity

The case for researchers publishing less in the age of AI

AI has stripped away the effort it once took to produce an academic paper, and with ‘publish or perish’ pressures, it is driving chronic over-publ...

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Spanish Ray of Hope for #ResearchIntegrity: The Science Ministry's new guidelines for publicly funded projects will specifically evaluate whether researchers & institutions obey all standards for research ethics & integrity, as set by the ALLEA European Code of Conduct www.boe.es/boe/dias/202...

The Symposium on "Frontiers in Organic Materials and Molecular Photophysics" was organized by Min Sang Kwon at Seoul National University, kwonlab.snu.ac.kr Thank you again, Min Sang and all friends, colleagues and students for this great day!

Dr. Liangxuan Wang, our former PhD student, co-supervised with A. J. Meixner, has won the Friedrich-Förster Prize for Junior Scientists in the field of Physics or Physical Chemistry at the Univ. Tübingen @unituebingen.bsky.social uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties... Congratulations, Lexie! 🥂🍾

Just as publishers are waking up to the threats from paper mills, they are adopting a new approach to keep one step ahead, as explained in this guest blogpost by Matt Spick. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-... #researchintegrity #publishing #papermills

How paper mills go straight (without going clean): a shift to dual-use services

Guest post by Matt Spick                            Photo: Parsadanov/Shutterstock.com From relative obscurity, paper mills have recently mo...

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Citation Cartels & Brokers at work: "Paper mill cancer studies get double the number of citations as genuine papers" 👇 ... & generating thousands of absurd "Rising Star" profiles in the "Stanford" list of "Top 2% scientists" #ResearchIntegrity

Paper mill cancer studies get double the number of citations as genuine papers

Potentially fraudulent papers often cite each other and could be inflating the impact factor of journals in which they are published.

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Interested in Dynamic Molecular Crystals? ...take a look at our new JACS paper on large thermo- and mechanosalient actuation, lead by Sang Kyu Park @ KIST #PiSky #ChemSky #CompChemSky doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

Large Thermo- and Mechanosalient Actuation via Cooperative Twist Elasticity-Induced Packing Motif Conversion

Dynamic molecular crystals capable of undergoing cooperative structural transformations offer exciting prospects for next-generation actuators, sensors, and stimuli-responsive materials. However, real...

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Research Integrity Seminar at "UNA Europa Summer School 2026 Exploring Soft Materials" @ Univ. Bologna. Thank you again, Fabrizia Negri & Luca Muccioli for the kind invitation, and the YRs for the good discussion! #ResearchIntegrity #ChemSky #CompChemSky site.unibo.it/una-europa/e...

Research Integrity Seminar @ Institute for Physical & Theoretical Chemistry, Univ. Tübingen, already 40th edition! Thank you again, Alfred Meixner & IPTC for the kind invitation, and the audience for the interest & discussion! #ResearchIntegrity

Scientometric analysis of the heavily gamed so-called "Stanford" List of "2% Top Scientists" #ResearchIntegrity

Persistent anomalies in the Stanford/Ioannidis top 2% scientist’s database: empirical impact of publication-type filtering, temporal coverage correction, and retraction-rate thresholds - Scientometric...

The Stanford/Ioannidis database of standardized citation indicators, now in its eighth version (August 2025), ranks over 230,000 scientists in the top 2% by composite citation score. While this resour...

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I agree on the value of HQ peer review, BUT as we know, "Highly Cited" does not necessarily mean "High Impact" anymore in times of Citation Cartels & Brokers ...just look at Springer-Nature's Scientific Reports, which makes much money with that 🫤 #ResearchIntegrity

LeidenForce@leidenforce.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Is difficult peer review a hidden signal of high-impact science? Data from Nature Communications suggests that stronger reviewer criticism correlates with more influential papers later on. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41... #Science #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity #Alanalysis #Knowledge

Thank you, Carlos Granell @ UJI, for the summary of my seminar, and that of Magnus, in Castellón: geotec.uji.es/2026/05/29/e... #ResearchIntegrity

Johannes Gierschner@gierschner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Discussing #ResearchIntegrity at "EDUC Retreat: New Ethical Challenges in Research" www.fue.uji.es/educretreat of of educalliance.eu @ Univ. Jaume I, Castellón Thank you again, Ramón Feenstra @rfeenstra.bsky.social for the kind invitation, and the YRs for the thoughtful discussion!

it was a great pleasure to attend the 👉Symposium in honor of Nazario Martín’s scientific career on the occasion of his 70th birthday! #PiSky

IMDEA Nanociencia@imdeanano.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Estos días hemos celebrado en la Universidad Complutense un emotivo simposio en honor al profesor Nazario Martín. Un encuentro de compañeros y amigos de carrera para reconocer una trayectoria excepcional y un impacto que trasciende fronteras. Gracias, Nazario, por tanto.

Our review on "Color-Pure Organic Luminophores: Characteristics, Definitions, Physical Basis and Fundamental Design Principles" in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. is now published👇 #PiSky #CompChemSky

Color‐Pure Organic Luminophores: Characteristics, Definitions, Physical Basis and Fundamental Design Principles

Color-pure all-organic emitters, i.e., with narrow spectral characteristics, are intensively studied for high-definition organic LEDs and multi-color bioimaging. In order to guide targeted materials ...

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"Academia Is Enshittifying. AI Made It Faster" Good read, by @samillingworth.com #ResearchIntegrity

Academia Is Enshittifying. AI Made It Faster.

A small retraction notice opens onto a large structural shift. AI did not start the rot in academic publishing. AI is the catalyst that is finishing it.

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👇 "Why AI can’t be trusted to write scientific reviews: The production of the highest-quality literature reviews requires the judgement and expertise of people" 👍 #ResearchIntegrity www.nature.com/articles/d41...

👇EDUC Retreat: "New Ethical Challenges in Research" great to connect to Spanish colleagues Ramón Feenstra @rfeenstra.bsky.social Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social and José Félix Lozano on #ResearchIntegrity www.fue.uji.es/educretreat

Discussing #ResearchIntegrity at "EDUC Retreat: New Ethical Challenges in Research" www.fue.uji.es/educretreat of of educalliance.eu @ Univ. Jaume I, Castellón Thank you again, Ramón Feenstra @rfeenstra.bsky.social for the kind invitation, and the YRs for the thoughtful discussion!

arXiv ban for 'AI slop' - also discussed in Nature 👇 #ResearchIntegrity

Researchers who use hallucinated references to face arXiv ban

The preprint server is the latest to impose stiff penalties on authors who contribute to AI ‘slop’ — but not everyone is convinced it’s the right approach.

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Johannes Gierschner@gierschner.bsky.social · 3mo ago

arXiv announces a 2 years ban for researchers who put their names to papers which included errors clearly generated by AI👇 #ResearchIntegrity #ChemSky #CompChemSky #PiSky

Discussing #ResearchIntegrity at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the European Chemistry Thematic Network (ECTN) ectn.eu, at Univ. Valencia. Thank you again, Rafael Ballesteros & Daniel Tordera for the kind invitation, and the audience for the thoughtful discussion. #ChemSky #CompChemSky #PiSky

Speaking about #ResearchIntegrity at IQTC - Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional, Universitat de Barcelona, www.iqtc.ub.edu/events/iqtc-... Thanks again, Francesc Viñes & IQTC for the kind invitation, and the audience for the thoughtful discussion! #CompChemSky #PiSky

arXiv announces a 2 years ban for researchers who put their names to papers which included errors clearly generated by AI👇 #ResearchIntegrity #ChemSky #CompChemSky #PiSky

Scott Macintyre@bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A key science publishing platform is cracking down on AI slop theconversation.com/a-key-scienc... #PrePrints #arXiv #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #ResearchIntegrity #LLM

Thank you again to all colleagues for the great discussions at ICEL! #PiSky #CompChemSky

ICEL2026@icel2026.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We are excited to announce ICEL2026 will take place from May 10th to 14th in Namur, Belgium! Stay tuned !

Enjoying the 15th International Conference on Electroluminescence and Optoelectronic Devices (ICEL 2026) in Namur, Belgium! Thanks, Yoann & Benoit and their Team for the great organization, and the kind invitation!

ICEL2026@icel2026.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We are excited to announce ICEL2026 will take place from May 10th to 14th in Namur, Belgium! Stay tuned !

Panče Naumov gave a great talk at IMDEA Nanoscience. Thanks, again, Panče, for the discussion & leisure, and Juan Cabanillas, for inviting him to Madrid! #ChemSky #PiSky

IMDEA Nanoscience, Madrid, wins the Accreditation as Spanish Center of Excellence "Severo Ochoa" the third time in a row! #ChemSky #CompChemSky #PiSky

IMDEA Nanociencia@imdeanano.bsky.social · 3mo ago

IMDEA Nanociencia renueva por tercera vez consecutiva la acreditación como Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa. Somos centro Severo Ochoa desde 2017, un aval del Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Univs. y la AEI a nuestra excelencia científica, estrategia institucional y proyección internacional.