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Next up #SSP2023
Research Integrity: Stories of learning from overcoming mass retractions, systematic manipulation and research misconduct.
Hannah Smith @WileyGlobal
Yael Fitzpatrick @GazelleInDminor @PNASNews
Luigi Longobardi @LuigiLon @IEEEorg
Mike Streeter @WileyGlobal Image
The panelists all introduce themselves - they now work in research integrity at a publisher, but started in very different careers. It is a relatively new type of career, and often started with a volunteer role in ethics.
#SSP2023
Each panelist will talk about their current job and how they deal with certain cases.
YF: The right thing to do is not always the easiest or most pleasant thing to do. Our journal suspected misconduct and rejected a manuscript, and we reported it to the institution.
#SSP2023
YF: Another case: A peer reviewer reported that a manuscript was submitted to two different publishers ( how to deal with that while respecting editorial confidentiality?
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LL: @IEEEorg has retracted 1000s of conference abstracts, our org is currently responsible for 25% of all retractions. We received complaints about quality of certain conference abstracts and decided to investigate thoroughly (100,000 papers)
See: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
#SSP2023
LL: we did not just retract these papers, we closed certain chapters and let certain volunteers go.
We now have much stricter quality requirements for new IEEE conferences and higher level of technical review.
But regaining trust will be a slow process.
#SSP2023
MS: Our story: we recently announced the retraction of hundreds of papers from our Hindawi portfolio because of suspicions of paper mill activity. This was a big effort, but transparency about these cases is important.
#SSP2023
retractionwatch.com/2022/09/28/exc…
retractionwatch.com/2023/04/05/wil…
YF: Publishers can review, but not legally investigate, we cannot e.g. confiscate lab books. That is up to the research institutions. We also do not deal with the people behind allegations, but we deal with the scholarly record, the papers.

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Q from the audience: how careful are you about sharing specifics on how e.g. paper mill activity was exposed? Sharing such details might alert fraudsters how to fraud better.
MS: we share that we found a paper mill, but we do not share all intelligence we have gained.
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LL: It is frustrating that we retract papers, but cannot go after the people who make money off these paper mills. There is even Twitter account tweeting about social media advertisements: @fake_journals - but who uncovers these organizations?
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Audience Q: Based on what you learned, how did your organization learn from that and now do differently?
YF: We focus more on e.g. tools to investigate image integrity.
MS: We introduced new screening tools and guidelines.
LL: AI tools will be both threat as opportunity.
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Q: Does this increased screening include your preprint articles?
LL: Yes, we are looking into policies for that.
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Q: What is the future of research integrity and what are you most excited about?
YF: There will be more bad stuff in the future. But I am excited that we will have increased tools of dealing with that.
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LL: There will be more paper mills in the future, but at least that will keep me employed!
MS: Standardization of workflow of the editorial process will increase screening. And I am excited about collaboration.
HS: Thank you all for your participation.
#SSP2023

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Here is an example of a paper with some very serious problems, where it appears the journal @CellStemCell took a very long time to retract: more than 7 years.
HT: @SmutClyde
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#SSP2023
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Roger Schonfeld @rschon will be moderating this panel, and opens the discussion with asking what the purpose of scholarly publishing is or should be.
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You can find the preprint here: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
I started a @PubPeer comment thread here:
pubpeer.com/publications/4…
and I invite everyone to join the discussion there.
The tweet at the start of this thread has resulted in a lot of discussion and critique, so if you have something valid to say, I encourage you to comment on the preprint on @PubPeer:
pubpeer.com/publications/4…
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One of these papers is from the Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine and @UnivOfKansas.
Together with earlier retractions from this group of authors, it raises severe concerns about this @NIEHS and Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province-sponsored research.
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Several other figures appear to have been copied from two other papers, again from different researchers.
There appears to be almost no original data in this paper. ImageImage
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Amid Tessier-Lavigne’s defense, unanswered questions and contradictory statements
@tab_delete writes @StanfordDaily
'He has canceled public appearances, demanded retraction of The Daily’s reporting through his lawyers, deactivated the website for his public office hours and declined to respond to dozens of inquiries.'
'When he has commented on the allegations surrounding his work, Tessier-Lavigne has routinely provided accounts that contradict publicly available information.'
Great investigation by Polk-award-winner @tab_delete
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