Paper mills are a growing threat to the integrity of science, yet their penetration in conference proceedings remains underexplored despite conferences being more important than journals in some sc...

In academic publishing, there is a crisis that is both authorial and infrastructural; however, the discussion around the topic is heavily skewed toward the former rather than the latter. This paper...

Published in Accountability in Research: Ethics, Integrity and Policy (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Published in Accountability in Research: Ethics, Integrity and Policy (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Little attention has been paid to how publication and access models influence the evidence that AI systems retrieve, process, and summarize. This article introduces the concept of AI-induced eviden...

Research performing organizations (RPOs) are increasingly expected to strengthen research culture and support the responsible conduct of research (RCR). Institutional supports are central to advanc...

This paper examines responses to data-sharing requests from authors in the Social Sciences. Compliance with requests for data-sharing in Medical Sciences has been reported to be low. The study exte...

This paper presents a three-year longitudinal autoethnographic study of the TIER2 project, an international, interdisciplinary consortium committed to “radical reproducibility” through open researc...

In the context of escalating authorship inflation and growing concern about research integrity, this article examines sole authorship as an epistemically and ethically grounded methodological condi...

Despite the proliferation of AI disclosure requirements in academic publishing, recent research suggests a persistent gap between policy expectations and research practice. However, little is known...

Human brain organoids have attracted increasing attention for their potential to model human brain development and neurological disorders. However, concerns about their possible consciousness have ...

Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) is increasingly becoming a site for international research to examine global climate change, biodiversity, deposits of rare earth elements, and various existing health ...

Predatory conferences (PCs) scam researchers by compromising them financially and professionally. This study presents the empirical development of the Pre-Attendance Conference Evaluator (PACE) to ...

Dual-use research of concern (DURC) refers to legitimate scientific research that, if misapplied, could cause significant harm. Journal editors play an important role in ensuring that disseminated ...

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...

Formal recognition of research contributions is critical for career advancement and the allocation of research funding. However, some contributions are mentioned only in the acknowledgments section...

Contemporary medical knowledge is generated within two interconnected economies that are often examined separately. First, the publishing market has become increasingly oligopolistic, transforming ...

Early notification of journal readers of the existence of publication integrity concerns by an editorial expression of concern (EoC) can mitigate the adverse effects of unreliable research.We extra...

Despite growing scholarly attention to both research integrity issues and predatory publishing, the phenomenon of retraction in potential predatory journals (PPJs), especially reasons for retractio...

Public trust in research depends in part on the capacity of the system to detect and correct errors in the research record. In Australia, this task is largely entrusted to research institutions thr...

Open Access (OA) agreements were introduced to remove financial barriers to scientific dissemination and promote equity in knowledge access. As Article Processing Charges (APCs) have shifted from i...

In efforts to improve replication rates across sciences, graduate student training can foster an understanding of best practices. One consideration is to identify the psychological underpinnings th...

Despite the importance of showcasing research achievements and safeguarding research integrity, our understanding of how Chinese universities navigate these potentially competing priorities remains...

Is it plagiarism if the material was previously published by a third party (other than the claimant)? This scenario is of interest as a model for an assertion that involves the 1981 Nobel Prize in ...

Authorship practices in collaborative research teams are often complex and influence perceptions surrounding fairness, responsibility, and accountability in scholarly work. This study investigates ...

Citation irregularities undermine the fairness and reliability of scholarly communication, yet the terms used to describe these behaviors remain fragmented and inconsistently defined.We employed a ...

The recent update of the Declaration of Helsinki has emphasized community engagement and research integrity. Patient, carer and public involvement (PCPI) throughout the research lifecycle of random...

Ethics review of research and innovation activities face growing challenges due to rapid scientific and technological advances, interdisciplinary research, and wider societal implications, such as ...

In this article, we discuss the growing problem of hallucinated citations produced by Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in scholarly research and writing. We argue that GenAI hallucinated ...

Since the term predatory publishing was coined in the early 2010s, a significant research literature has emerged that carries warnings about journals issued by such publishers, while signaling the ...

Review mills are recognized when individuals generate numerous generic review reports, typically containing suggestions for citations to their own work. Here, we report a network with characteristi...

Research fraud is often seen as a rare event, but evidence from self-report surveys indicates that fabrication and falsification of data are common enough to be a problem. This study assessed attit...

The lack of diversity in research participation poses a threat to health equity and the ethical principle of justice. Yet few evidence-based interventions exist. This study compared two educational...

This study aims to examine how scholarly journals advise authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors about the acceptable use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the scholarly publishing process.Me...

Scientific fakery is a centuries old problem. Twinned with the long history of hard-working scientists earning fame for genuine discoveries, runs a tawdry history of those who were willing fabricat...

The value of scientific knowledge and fairness in distribution of academic credit are core values in research publication. However, it is little discussed in the literature that these values may co...

In this paper, we document a tension in the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity: the Code seeks to limit the influence of non-epistemic values, and yet, it recognizes that such values p...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping research practices, yet its ethical implications remain under‑examined, particularly in cross‑national contexts.To explore how AI integration into environm...

In many parts of the world, an increasing number of clinical healthcare services are delivered through corporations. These corporations are also increasingly required to shape and undertake vital m...

Retractions issued for misconduct offer a unique window into how questionable research is rhetorically constructed and made to appear credible. This study investigates how engaging with retracted a...

Nutrition research funded by commercial entities may be subject to bias. To date, no study has examined the prevalence of commercial funding in clinical trials of dietary supplements for weight los...

Initiatives in responsible conduct of research (RCR) have often been ineffective, since they are based on several problematic assumptions. These include that (1) integrity issues in biomedical rese...

Weather and climate research is an area of science in which private companies, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have substantial interests at stake, but little is know...

Many peer review attributes are widely criticized and poorly investigated, particularly in the context of proposals’ peer review. This study aims to explore stakeholders’ perspectives on the role o...