(18 Nov 2025) The first of three themes for next year’s World Conference on Research Integrity will be the risks and benefits of artificial intelligence for research integrity. In an ironic and possibly predictable turn of events, the conference has received “an unusually large proportion” of off-topic abstracts that show signs of being written by generative…
(20 Oct 2025) The American Medical Association (AMA) today announced the launch of its Center for Digital Health and AI, a new endeavor created to put physicians at the center of shaping, guiding, and implementing technologies transforming medicine. Artificial intelligence (AI) and digital health tools are advancing rapidly, but without physician leadership and input, they risk…
(30 Sept 2025) In this post, Frances Pinter, Director, Academic Relations, Central European University Press, speaks with Professor Yana Suchikova, Vice-Rector for Research at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University about GAIDeT – the Generative AI Delegation Taxonomy, which enables researchers to disclose the use of generative AI in an honest and transparent way. GAIDeT is a…
(8 Oct 2025) Two major publishers have begun to automatically reject the vast majority of papers based on public health data sets, following revelations that unscrupulous actors use these data sets to churn out nonsense scientific papers. Last month, PLOS and Frontiers both announced submissions that use data sets such as the U.S. Centers for Disease…
(1 Oct 2025) Broad public understanding of scientific discoveries has traditionally been shaped by mainstream media coverage. To better understand the process of communicating academic publications to popular media, a team from Harvard University analyzed 1,155 archaeology papers published in one specialist and six general science journals over six years and the resulting media coverage. …
(29 Sept 2025) Bristol University Press (BUP) today announces the launch of the Global Social Challenges Development Fund, a new initiative designed to democratise access to academic publishing and empower marginalised voices across the globe. The fund will support Global South scholars and Early Career Researchers (ECRs) through equitable publication initiatives, including English-language editing, multilingual publishing,…
(22 Sept 2025) Impact case studies have held significant weight in REF since its establishment in 2014, and the way research is undertaken and supported continues to be shaped by the impact agenda. So, although there are outstanding questions on what exactly the next iteration of REF will look like, there seems little doubt that impact case studies will remain a key component. Citation databases,…
(11 Sept 2025) The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) has released new retraction guidelines designed to address growing challenges such as paper mill activity, fraudulent authorship, and undeclared third-party involvement. The new framework specifies that journals should retract work when authorship cannot be verified, when accountability is uncertain, or when any form of misrepresentation—including deception, fraud (e.g., a…
(10 Sept 2025) Publishers increasingly require and academics are increasingly willing to acknowledge and credit the role played by AI in their research papers. Discussing a recent study, of these acknowledgements Kayvan Kousha finds LLMs to be used for a fairly narrow set of academic tasks. There is growing evidence that many researchers are using LLMs.…
Study finds the chatbot doesn’t acknowledge concerns with problematic studies (15 Aug 2025) The large language model–based chatbot ChatGPT fails to highlight the validity concerns with scientific papers that have been retracted or have been the subject of other editorial notices, according to a new study. The analysis, published by Learned Publishing on Aug. 4, examines whether…