I'm pleased to be on the Editorial Committee for @sci-integrity.com and I recommend you read the latest issue of REACH. Especially if, like me, you were not able to attend the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity - everything there is in here!

Science Integrity Alliance@sci-integrity.com · 3w ago

The April–June 2026 issue of REACH is now live! 🎉 🔗 www.sci-integrity.com/reach Our special coverage takes you inside the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity in Vancouver, where 700+ people from 57 countries met to confront the forces reshaping how science is done and trusted. 🧵 1/7

📝 Latest Article Alert! 📝 "Shared responsibility to address questionable research practices? – A study of perceived efficacy of organizational research integrity policies" Simon Fuglsang et al. → doi.org/10.1080/0898... #QuestionableResearchPractices #ResearcherBhavior #ResearchIntegrity

Shared responsibility to address questionable research practices? – A study of perceived efficacy of organizational research integrity policies

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...

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What if research papers could flag potential problems before publication? @lakens.bsky.social showcases tools for identifying reporting inconsistencies, citation issues, reproducibility concerns, and other signals relevant to research integrity. Register free; open to all. tinyurl.com/3wbx9tmr

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research. go.nature.com/4dP1rwk

Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which we publish

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.

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Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thanks for documenting and sharing reflections from the 2026 World Conference on Research Integrity in Vancouver. A valuable resource for continuing conversations on research integrity across contexts and communities.

Elisabeth Bik@elisabethbik.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New on ScienceIntegrityDigest: My report from the 2026 World Conference on Research Integrity in Vancouver. If you could not make it, there are links to all my BlueSky live posts from the sessions I attended. #WCRI2026 Read the report here: scienceintegritydigest.com/2026/05/20/r...

Thanks @elisabethbik.bsky.social for this informative blog post on the #WCRI2026, including your many excellent Bluesky life threads of sessions you attended. The conference videos will be made public after 3 months on the @wcrifoundation.bsky.social Vimeo channel: vimeo.com/user17566807...

Elisabeth Bik@elisabethbik.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New on ScienceIntegrityDigest: My report from the 2026 World Conference on Research Integrity in Vancouver. If you could not make it, there are links to all my BlueSky live posts from the sessions I attended. #WCRI2026 Read the report here: scienceintegritydigest.com/2026/05/20/r...

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations

Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...

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Detecting fake papers was one of the prominent themes of the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity. As scientific fraud proliferates, so do businesses that aim to stop it cen.acs.org/policy/publi...

Chemical & Engineering News

Chemical & Engineering News is a weekly news magazine published by the American Chemical Society, providing professional and technical news and analysis in the fields of chemistry and chemical enginee...

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Surveys show up to 76% of researchers use AI, but self-disclosures in BMJ submissions sit at just 5.7%. There are global standards being drafted to fix this gap but it’s a messy debate over whether to declare simple edits or only full agentic research. #AcademicSky

As researchers aim for universal AI disclosure guidelines, the devil is in the details

Integrity conference attendees debated when and how authors should declare AI use in papers

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#WCRI2026 is over. I would like to share the summary of several presentations on paper mills. abalkina.com/wcri-2026-pa... abalkina.com/wcri-2026-pa... Part 3 will be released soon.

WCRI 2026 (Part 1) - Anna Abalkina

World Congress on Research Integrity 2026, for the first time, included dozens of presentations on paper mills, organizations that sell papers, co-authorship

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🚨 NEWS: The first report from the Forensic Scientometrics (FoSci) movement maps one of the most critical issues facing global research: manipulation. The report has been launched at the World Conferences on Research Integrity in Vancouver, Canada. #WCRI2026 🔗 See more: https://ow.ly/hqbH50YVwYe

Thank you, all the sponsors, for making this possible. #WCRI2026

And a photo of all those award winners. Congratulations to all! #WCRI2026

After lunch, Inge Stegeman, with "Open Science to Increase Reproducibility in Science: The OSIRIS Project" - osiris4r.eu Is Open Science going to solve all our problems with reproducibility? Are there benefits or harms? Let's study this! We got funding and a good group from all over Europe #WCRI2026

$300 for 50 citations: the citation black market: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #WCRI2026

Citation cartels are now masquerading as researchers in war zones or low-income countries to obtain journal fee waivers, according to @abalkina.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/research-int... #WCRI2026

Citation cartels use fake author names to target chemistry journals

Dubious entities masquerade as researchers in war zones or low-income countries to obtain journal fee waivers

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Code of conduct for sleuthing being discussed at #WCRI2026 reported here: cen.acs.org/research-int...

Scientific sleuths come in from the cold

Research integrity investigators are starting to organize, but the field, and the people, remain idiosyncratic

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UK Committee on Research Integrity mentioned at #WCRI2026: www.chemistryworld.com/news/dedicat...

Dedicated committee needed to tackle research reproducibility problems in the UK

UK House of Commons report suggests government needs to play a bigger role addressing issues affecting science

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Paper mill content growing faster than legitimate research, according to study by @reeserichardson.bsky.social & colleagues — which @elisabethbik.bsky.social mentioned in her talk at #WCRI2026: cen.acs.org/policy/publi...

Brokers of scientific fraud growing rapidly, study finds

Publishers are not keeping up with paper mills and other purveyors of shoddy academic papers

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@elisabethbik.bsky.social describing her first project spotting image duplications. Important message about how in certain areas such as cancer research, fraud or at least very low quality / questionable practice research is flooding the field because it builds people's careers. #wcri2026

What a moment! 🌟 @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @brandonstell.bsky.social, @pubpeer.com, and Tim Errington @cos.io on stage at #WCRI2026 For our 5-year-old #EinsteinFoundationAward, there's no better birthday present than seeing our winners on the world's premier stage for research integrity.

Researchers who use generative AI to write papers are publishing more cen.acs.org/policy/publi...

Researchers who use generative AI to write papers are publishing more

Large language models produce papers that use more-complex language and cite a wider range of sources

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Around $1,000 can buy you first authorship on a dodgy scientific paper cen.acs.org/policy/publi...

Around $1,000 can buy you first authorship on a dodgy scientific paper

Cost varies across paper mills, but the least expensive one is in India, according to a new analysis of social media advertisements

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RD: Science is in transition - we don't know what we will transition to, but it can be better. International collaboration is key. Our lifespans are longer than political governments. These are no ideological goals, but operational requirements. Thank you all for your incredible work! #WCRI2026

It's 5 pm in Vancouver, and we are getting ready for the Steneck-Mayer lecture, given by Prof. Robbert Dijkgraaf President-Elect, International Science Council. [He gave a very good talk at the @einsteinberlin.bsky.social ceremony last year, so looking forward!] #WCRI2026

RD: Science is a complex ecosystem, its strength lies in the connectivity of the network, but it also serves society. The whole of science is more than the sum of its parts - like the rainforest, it is diverse as well as brutal. We need to improve the low ceilings, internal walls, etc. #WCRI2026

#wcri2026 day starting with @jabyrnesci.bsky.social introducing the session "Misuse of AI by Paper Mills". (As opposed to the correct use of AI by paper mills, presumably 😜)

Tomorrow at #WCRI2026, the #EinsteinFoundationAward hosts a plenary showcasing winners who advance responsible science. Timothy Errington @cos.io, @brandonstell.bsky.social @pubpeer.com, and @elisabethbik.bsky.social share insights on open science, post-publication peer review and error detection.

World Conferences on Research Integrity@wcrifoundation.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Plenary Series Preview #3 Who safeguards research integrity in the age of AI? Einstein Foundation Award winners share how open science, post-publication peer review, and image forensics are strengthening accountability and transparency worldwide. 🗓 May 5, 1:30–3:00 PM

Good morning from Vancouver! We start with Plenary Session #1: Misuse of AI by Paper Mills. The first talk is by Dr. Daniel Moreira with Misuse of AI in Research- From Data Production to Manuscripts He works with Machine Learning, a specific form of AI, to find patterns in complex data. #WCRI2026