(6 Jun 2025) A university-scoring method that highlights research-integrity ‘red flags’ could make it easier to spot institutions that are chasing conventional publishing metrics at the expense of rigorous science, researchers say.
The Research Integrity Risk Index, described in a preprint on arXiv last month1, categorizes institutions according to how many of their papers are retracted and how many are published in journals delisted from the scholarly databases Scopus and Web of Science. Researchers say that the index could improve university ranking systems that currently reward quantity of research output over quality.
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