(May 2024) To better understand how the UK can tackle research misconduct, in early 2023 the UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO) convened an expert working group, chaired by Tracey Brown OBE, to review the challenges faced by research employers, funders, publishers, and researchers in investigating allegations of misconduct. The findings are published in UKRIO’s report, Barriers…
(15 May 2024) Wiley has announced that it is closing 19 journals amid a massive influx of fake papers, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The publisher has retracted more than 11,300 “compromised” studies over the past two years. Source: Inside Higher Ed
(13 May 2024) In the denouement of the COVID-19 pandemic, talk of a return to “normalcy” in higher education belies the great challenges and ongoing disruptions that yet lie ahead for many institutions. Public perceptions of the value of postsecondary education continue their downward slide, placing institutions in the position of having to demonstrate their worth…
(8 May 2024) New data repositories and alternative journals and workshops offer routes for sharing negative results — which could help to solve the reproducibility crisis and give machine learning a boost. Over the past 30 years, the proportion of negative results being published has decreased further. A 2012 study showed that, from 1990…
(9 May 2024) Prof. Dr. Vo Xuan Vinh, who is ranked 8th among 47 Vietnamese people in the ‘top most influential scientists in the world’, is the author of an article that was just removed by an international magazine. Prof. Dr. Vo Xuan Vinh is “Vietnam’s leading economic researcher”, one of four Vietnamese people…
(13 May 2024) GetFTR, the cross-industry initiative aimed at streamlining the researcher journey from discovery to access, is proud to announce a significant enhancement to their core service which will expose retraction and errata information to researchers at the point of discovery. This collaboration with Crossref marks a significant step forward in ensuring researchers have…
(8 May 2024) Microsoft Corp. and LinkedIn released the 2024 Work Trend Index, a joint report on the state of AI at work titled, “AI at work is here. Now comes the hard part.” The research — based on a survey of 31,000 people across 31 countries, labor and hiring trends on LinkedIn, trillions of Microsoft 365…
(3 May 2024) The governments of Cambodia and China, through the legislative bodies of both sides, have agreed to boost cooperation in establishing the Digital Law Library of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly to expand all-round cooperation in line with the strategic partnership and building a common destiny community. More details can be found here.
(8 May 2024) Asia-Pacific Member States newly inscribed 20 items during the 2024 cycle of the Memory of the World Regional Register at the 10th General Meeting of the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP), which was convened from 7 to 8 May, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Genealogical records were…
(10 May 2024) A wave of AI systems have “deceived” humans in ways they haven’t been explicitly trained to do, by offering up untrue explanations for their behavior or concealing the truth from human users and misleading them to achieve a strategic end. This issue highlights how difficult artificial intelligence is to control and…