June 2024

9th World Conference on Research Integrity announced The 8th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI) ended on a high note with the announcement that the next of these biennial conferences will take place in Vancouver, Canada in 2026. Lex Bouter, Founding Chair of the WCRI Foundation and Professor Emeritus of Methodology and Integrity at Vrije […]

A Global Network for Early Career Research Integrity Practitioners Today’s post is by Natalie Simon, Paula Saner, De Ming Chau and Joeri Tijdink. Natalie is a communications consultant specializing in higher education and research. Paula is the Research Integrity Manager at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Office of Research Integrity (ORI). De Ming is

End paper mills menace to protect research integrity The research community around the world needs to come together and pool both material and intellectual resources to fight the growing menace of research paper mills, in order to protect the integrity and value of research, the World Conference on Research Integrity heard recently. Read more …

Doctoral forums on research integrity change the course of PhDs Doctoral forums conducted during international conferences on research integrity around the world have been changing the course of research work undertaken by PhD students, and positively influencing the quality of work done as well as its focus. Read more …

Η ακεραιότητα στην έρευνα Η αξιοπιστία των επιστημονικών ευρημάτων είναι ευθέως ανάλογη με την ακεραιότητα των επιστημόνων, και το αν οι κοινωνίες εμπιστεύονται (ή όχι) τα ευρήματα των επιστημόνων μπορεί ενίοτε να είναι ζήτημα ζωής και θανάτου. Read more …

Integrity helps translate research into trustworthy innovation Bold expansion of a global research integrity framework to encompass industry and policy-makers – and all other parts of the research ecosystem – has been proposed following extensive consultations as well as discussions at the 8th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI) held in Athens last week. Read

Developments and challenges around AI and research integrity Divisions created between academic and research ethics are largely artificial and should be dismantled. Academia needs to work collectively and urgently to integrate academic and research integrity with AI, global ethics expert Professor Sarah Elaine Eaton told the 2024 World Conference on Research Integrity. Read more …

The Utility and Danger of AI in Scientific Publishing: Riddles of the Sphinx – GigaScience at WCRI 2024 The 8th World Congress on Research Integrity (WCRI) took place in Athens, Greece from 1st-5th June. GigaScience Press are regular attendees of this conference, and this year our organisation was represented by GigaScience Editor-in-Chief Scott Edmunds, Executive

Η ακεραιότητα της έρευνας απασχόλησε παγκόσμιο συνέδριο στην Αθήνα Περισσότεροι από 800 σύνεδροι συζήτησαν μια ποικιλία παραμέτρων, μεταξύ άλλων τις συνέπειες της χρήσης τεχνητής νοημοσύνης στην έρευνα. Read more …