New @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint on suspected citation manipulation by #PaperMills in molecular oncology, with Baptiste Scancar, David Causer @institutagro.bsky.social & @aidybarnett.bsky.social @aushsi.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au 🙏 @nhmrc.bsky.social for💰 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint led by @pranujanp.bsky.social, studying errors such as incorrect primer sequences and contaminated #CellLines in #circRNA papers in high impact factor journals. We found reagent errors in 51% of n=118 circRNA papers in high IF journals in 2022 (1/4)🧪

Well, #WCRI2026 was an amazing conference! Spent 5 days mingling with #ResearchIntegrity enthusiasts from all disciplines! Inspiring to hear all the efforts going towards battling #papermills Huge thanks to @jabyrnesci.bsky.social for organising this sleuth get together. Too many legends to tag! 💜

What does the ideal education in publication intergrity look like? How are students and ECRs supposed to learn how to identify unreliable research? @pranujanp.bsky.social @jabyrnesci.bsky.social @aidybarnett.bsky.social #AIMOS2025

Next: Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social with 'Statistical significance and p values: The researcher’s heroin' * p values are highly unrealiable - don't trust them, don't use them! www.thenewstatistics.com tiny.cc/osfsigroulette #IRICSydney

Next: Lisa Bero with: 'Hijacking research integrity: What can possibly go wrong and how can we fix it?' In certain companies, authors who raise integrity issues can be 'discredited'. LB's research has been 'monitored by Coca-Cola www.smh.com.au/technology/c... #IRICSydney

Next up: David Vaux with "An Office for Research Integrity in Australia – What are the barriers?" * 23 European countries and 6 others have offices for research integrity. * Australia has a guide with principles and responsibilities but institutions essentially investigate themselves. #IRICSydney

Next up, Jennifer Byrne @jabyrnesci.bsky.social with "Paper Mills, Fraud and More" Paper mills are not predatory publishers - they offer authorship positions and publish in real scientific journals. Lots of profits: folks who need papers, paper mills, journals. #IRICSydney

Next, a general discussion "What is needed?", led by Pranujan Pathmendra @pranujanp.bsky.social * Should we rewrite the Guide (Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research)? David Vaux: Yes! It has been rewritten several times, but it has only gotten worse - too vague. #IRICSydney

And: Verification of nucleotide sequence reagent identities in original publications in high impact factor cancer research journals (CC: @pranujanp.bsky.social @jabyrnesci.bsky.social ) doi.org/10.1007/s002...

Verification of nucleotide sequence reagent identities in original publications in high impact factor cancer research journals - Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

Human gene research studies that describe wrongly identified nucleotide sequence reagents have been mostly identified in journals of low to moderate impact factor, where unreliable findings could be c...

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Huge congratulations to @jabyrnesci.bsky.social for receiving the David Vaux award! I feel very lucky to be on a team led by such an amazing and accomplished woman

Pranujan Pathmendra@pranujanp.bsky.social · last yr.

Extremely thrilled to congratulate @jabyrnesci.bsky.social on achieving this prestigious award. She has been an amazing champion and role model in pursuing research integrity and ensuring the scientific literature remains #reliable and #trustworthy!!! www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...

Extremely thrilled to congratulate @jabyrnesci.bsky.social on achieving this prestigious award. She has been an amazing champion and role model in pursuing research integrity and ensuring the scientific literature remains #reliable and #trustworthy!!! www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...

Professor renowned for expunging fake research receives David Vaux

Professor Jennifer Byrne’s career has diverted from cancer research to research integrity. Image: supplied The Academy is delighted to announce Professor Jennifer Byrne from the University of Sydney

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Great to see @jabyrnesci.bsky.social 's work being recognised: www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...

Professor renowned for expunging fake research receives David Vaux

Professor Jennifer Byrne’s career has diverted from cancer research to research integrity. Image: supplied The Academy is delighted to announce Professor Jennifer Byrne from the University of Sydney

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Great new article by @jabyrnesci.bsky.social and Adrian Barnett comparing problematic research articles to broken laboratory equipment. A faulty freezer would be flagged immediately, yet it can take years to retract fatally flawed studies. How can we incentivise correction?

The research literature is an unsafe workplace

Research is conducted in workplaces that can present safety hazards. Where researchers work in laboratories, safety hazards can arise through the need to operate complex equipment that can become u...

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#MetaROR launch at #AIMOS2024 @aimosinc.bsky.social @rorinstitute.bsky.social @jameswilsdon.bsky.social #metascience It's the content that counts!

Day 2 of COPE's #PublicationIntegrityWeek 🚨started with a robust discussion about role of all stakeholders in ensuring integrity. Interesting points about educating researchers & changing incentives, but at times, speakers seemed to blame each other. All stakeholders need to take responsibility!

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ALT: a cartoon of spider-man pointing at another spider-man with the words " no u " on the bottom

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A fantastic and very insightful plenary by @barbobrien.bsky.social at #AIMOS2024! Whether it's wrongful convictions or academia, common obstacles to preventing, detecting, and correcting errors remain. #metaresearch

Excited to be in Canberra for AIMOS 24 agbarnett.github.io/aimos.confer... I gave a talk this morning on ‘where next for metascience?’ — slides online here: rori.figshare.com/articles/pre... Thanks to Adrian Barnett & all at @aimosinc.bsky.social for the opportunity to join you 🙏🏻

#AIMOS2024 | Join us for the launch of MetaROR: A new peer review platform for metaresearch

#AIMOS2024 | Join us for the launch of MetaROR: A new peer review platform for metaresearch

« RoRI and AIMOS are launching the MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) platform MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) is a new open platform designed to transform how we review and share metaresearch t…

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A great plenary at #AIMOS2024 on the state of #metascience, and how it has expanded and diversified over the past 5 years. An exciting place to work in:)

James Wilson’s plenary: 1. I prefer “metaresearch” to “metascience”. Better describes full range of subject matter. 2. Discipline is older than a century! Francesco Redi in the 17thC was obsessed with replicating rather than creating new experiments. 3. Good joke about parking spaces. #AIMOS2024

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Well, my first post here and got the science emoji wrong... trying again 🧪

Jennifer Byrne@jabyrnesci.bsky.social · 2y ago

The research literature is an unsafe workplace... flagging papers with verifiable errors will improve the safety of everyone working in the research literature. 🧬 search.app?link=https%3...

Larry is the world’s most highly cited #cat (132 #citations vs Willard’s 107). These were entirely fabricated, by Reese Richardson and Nick Wise. The duo wanted to show how shady companies exploit #GoogleScholar to sell fake #metrics #scholarypublishing #academia reeserichardson.blog/2024/07/18/e...

Engineering the world’s highest cited cat, Larry

A citation manipulation scheme so easy, even a cat can do it.

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A Hungarian PhD student is invited to collaborate on papers whilst at a conference, then it all gets out of hand. An impressive article by Gábor Stöckert building on my recent investigation into an Iraqi papermill. telex.hu/komplex/2024...

Plagizált, visszavont cikkek, gyanús hivatkozások: Magyarországra is megérkeztek a tanulmánygyárak

Az Óbudai Egyetem két kutatója is belekeveredett egy iraki „papírgyár” cikkeibe. Az ilyen vállalkozásoktól hivatkozásokat vagy szerzőséget lehet vásárolni, és alapjaiban kezdik ki a tudományos publiká...

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IT'S TIME: United2Act is moving to do something about the paper mill problem www.nature.com/articles/d41... "“Paper milling isn’t an operation, it isn’t an organization: it’s a culture,” says data scientist Adam Day, who ... has developed a detection tool called The Papermill Alarm."

Science’s fake-paper problem: high-profile effort will tackle paper mills

EXCLUSIVE: Poor-quality studies are polluting the literature — a group will study the businesses that produce them to stem the flow of bogus research. EXCLUSIVE: Poor-quality studies are polluting t...

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Excited to announce my very first paper is out now as preprint on PsyArXiv! osf.io/preprints/ps... 
Huge thanks to everyone involved! @simine.com, @bethclarke.bsky.social , Nicholas Moodie, Sarah Schiavone, Robert Thibault, & @tomhardwicke.bsky.social (1/4)