Whether peer review needs revolution or evolution may be the wrong question. The more pressing one is whether the academic community is prepared to let scientific ideas be published, contested, and refined in public, rather than behind closed doors.

Research Integrity and Peer Review - Transparency and openness are core scientific values that enable independent verification of reported research results. The Transparency and Openness Promotion...

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...

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.

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

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

The ways in which researchers can artificially inflate their reference counts are growing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The paper explores the integration of Electroen cephalography( EEG) and advanced machine literacy ways for ADHD discovery. pressing the significance of early identi fication, the study aims to upgrade...

How do two conflicting visions of the scientific literature as either a library or a database shape attitudes shape key issues in scholarly communication?

Change is needed to address integrity problems caused by “publish or perish” culture, universities say

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 European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has been selected to host a new phase of Open Research Europe (ORE), supported by the European Commission and a new funding consortium of European national funding agencies and research organizations. NWO recently joined this consortium.

Researchers working on the most advanced AI models want rules to be drawn up to minimize the harm the technologies could cause. Their warnings need to be heard.