(6 May 2026) The Forensic Scientometrics (FoSci) movement has published its first report, bringing together leading experts from across the research investigative community to document, scrutinise and address a critical issue: the manipulation of global research. The FoSci Report 2026: Understanding, Detecting, and Documenting Manipulation in the Research Ecosystem, has been launched at this week’s 9th World…
(6 May 2026) Artificial intelligence (AI) tools designed to execute end-to-end projects, from coming up with hypotheses to running and writing up experiments, are increasingly popular with researchers—and increasingly skilled. But a new study shows these tools can stealthily violate norms of research integrity. Computer scientist Nihar Shah of Carnegie Mellon University and colleagues looked…
(4 Mar 2026) Research integrity in Australia may be at risk, the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council have warned. The ARC and the NHMRC announced a joint national review of the research integrity system on 23 February, saying there is a “lack of consistent, sector-wide data on research integrity…
(24 Feb 2026) The widespread availability of AI tools has put the potential for student academic misconduct and concerns around the possibility of enforcement in the spotlight. It has also contributed to a market for academic misconduct services. Exploring how these platforms draw users into a wider ecosystem of services, Gengyan Tang, Sarah Elaine Eaton and Wei Cai find…
(5 Feb 2026) The United Kingdom’s Office for Students (OfS), the nation’s higher education regulator, released a damning report about Regent College London (RCL), saying that the school’s staff failed to give students adequate instruction and even encouraged them to cheat on assessments. According to the report, students at RCL received grades that were “excessive and not…
(4 Feb 2026) You’d have to have a laser focus elsewhere not to notice the growing concern about research integrity. In recent months there have been many reports, conference sessions and webinars all looking at the risks institutions and researchers face when research is of uncertain quality or dubious provenance. Librarians are at the forefront…
(27 Jan 2026) Over the past decade, Hindawi expanded rapidly from a small open access (OA) publisher into a large, multi-journal operation publishing tens of thousands of articles annually. This period of growth coincided with an increase in submissions later linked to paper mills. By 2023–2024, public reporting documented that more than 8,000 articles across a…
(26 Nov 2025) In line with China’s emphasis on research integrity, the Ministry of Science and Technology and relevant departments have launched a special campaign to crack down on misconduct in academic papers, according to an announcement issued Wednesday on the ministry’s official WeChat account. The campaign primarily targets retracted papers published by Chinese scholars…
(4 Dec 2025) Sense about Science – an independent charity that promotes the public interest in sound science and evidence – and Taylor & Francis have announced the publication of a comprehensive research integrity toolkit, created with and for early career researchers (ECRs). The guide addresses common questions and provides practical advice to help researchers…
(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…