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Fifth and final session on #ResearchIntegrity Brandon Stell on #PubPeer pubpeer.com @FEBSnews
Stell: Scientists are not the only people whose work relies on accuracy of published work - also basis for current and future research, public policy, etc #ResearchMisconduct
Stell: cites the #Poldermans case and how flawed publication that made its way into guidelines led to 8000 deaths
Stell: also the, better known, #Wakefield case, anti-vax and the rise of measles cases #PublicHealth #FEBS2018
Stell: pressure to publish in "high impact" journals drive temptation to sweep problems under carpet, fuel issues with #Reproducibility
Stell: Difficult to achieve #Retraction - conflicts of interests for the original authors, the journal and the institution where work was conducted
Stell Aim of #Pubpeer is to bypass those #ConfictOfInterest hurdles, getting the necessary information out ASAP.
Stell: Most controversially #Pubpeer allows anonymous critique. There are safeguards, e.g. must be based on published material not rumour, comments moderated, facilities to report abuse, authors' right to reply, alert systems, etc
Stell: #Pubpeer also has community surveillance
Stell: just launched peeriodicals.com (yes,2 x e) peeriodicals.com A peeriodical is lightweight virtual journal with you as Editor-in-chief, giving you complete freedom in setting editorial policy to select the most interesting & useful manuscripts for your reader
Stell: also notes importance of @F1000Research @RetractionWatch and personal blogs in post-publication peer review and raising concerns about published work #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity
Stell: there HAVE been abuses of the PubPeer system, but these have been dealt with robustly and quickly - belief nothing currently live. One legal challenge re anonymisation of reviews was launched
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Fourth speaker in #ResearchMisconduct session - Stefan Franzen "How not to design research misconduct policy" #FEBS2018
Franzen: Scientific funding has been dramatically shaken up by #InternationalPropertyRights and #TechnologyTransfer, incrementally since Bayh-Dole Act
Franzen: What happened to the *science* taking the lead in what gets published? #PublicationEthics
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Third #ResearchMisconduct presentation by Bernhard Rupp: The action is in the re(tr)action @FEBSnews #FEBS2018
Rupp breaks with convention and walks away from the podium #WanderingSpeaker
Rupp: valid concerns exist about incorrect and irreproducible research, but is there a "reproducibility crisis"? #ResearchMisconduct
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Second presentation on #ResearchMisconduct Alexander Wlodawer looking in detail at careless and rare fake structures in Crystallography and CryEM @FEBSnews
Wlodawer: several examples of structures deposited but not published, even many years later #ProteinStructure
Wlodawer: most notorious case of outright #Fabrication H.M. Krishna Murthy from University of Alabama retractionwatch.com/2018/04/10/inf…
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