Think back, if you can, 25 years ago to January 2001, and what do you remember? To jog your memory, that month saw the inauguration of George W. Bush as U.S. President, the launch of iTunes from Apple, and the appointment of the England football team’s first foreign manager, Sven-Göran Eriksson. While you sit there thinking how old you feel, this will make you … Continue reading Who can you trust?
Ghosts in the machine
Breaching research integrity is often regarded as, at worst, a white-collar crime reserved for nerdy types who couldn’t quite cut it intellectually; at best, it’s not even regarded at all – it is simply invisible to most people as they go about their lives. However, this may be about to change with the release of a new documentary that may bring the problem … Continue reading Ghosts in the machine
Book Review: Introduction to Research Ethics and Academic Integrity, by Amani Khalil Abu-Shaheen, Muaawia Ahmed Hamza, and Sumayyia Marar (eds.)
If there is a common thread to any article or commentary on the state of research integrity and publishing ethics among the global scholarly community, it is usually that there is a need for more education. If only PhD students had better teaching on research integrity issues, and early career scholars more formal instruction on … Continue reading Book Review: Introduction to Research Ethics and Academic Integrity, by Amani Khalil Abu-Shaheen, Muaawia Ahmed Hamza, and Sumayyia Marar (eds.)
No signs of slowing
Simon Linacre takes a look at the predatory journals listed in Predatory Reports throughout June 2021.
Industrial disease
A new collaboration with between Cabells and Edifix from Inera helps researchers identify articles and authors published in predatory journals to prevent citation contamination.
Book review – Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research
The issues of gaming metrics and predatory publishing undoubtedly go hand-in-hand, outputs from the same system that requires academic researchers the world over to sing for their supper in some form or other. However, the two practices are often treated separately, almost as if there was no link at all, so editors Biagioli and Lippman are to be congratulated in bringing them together under the same roof in the shape of their book Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research (MIT Press, 2020).
The power of four
After hearing so many different ways that its Journal Whitelist and Journal Blacklist have been used by customers, Cabells has started to map out how any researcher can use journal data to optimize their decision-making. Fresh from its debut at the World Congress on Research Integrity in Hong Kong last month, Simon Linacre shares the … Continue reading The power of four