Academic integrity and plagiarism

Quantifying structural vulnerabilities and resilience to research integrity risks in biomedical research networks

The paper quantifies structural vulnerabilities and resilience to research integrity risks in biomedical research networks by analyzing retraction rates and citation patterns across fields.

Revealing the Paper Mill Iceberg: AI-Based Screening of Cancer Research Publications.

A BERT classifier on titles and abstracts flagged 9.87% of 2.6 million cancer papers (1999 to 2024) as resembling retracted paper mill papers, with yearly shares rising past 15%.

Does charging for corrections in the bioscience literature disincentivize pre-publication handling of problematic image data? An ImageTwin-AI study.

This study examines if charging for corrections in the Journal of Cancer disincentivizes pre-publication handling of problematic image data, finding a modest impact after policy change.

Fine-Grained Detection of AI-Generated Writing in the Biomedical Literature

This study detects AI-generated writing in biomedical literature, finding a sharp increase in 2025 with 12.4% of papers containing AI-written passages, especially from South Korea and China.

Evaluation of the Utility of a Research Ethics Training Course to Graduate Students

This study evaluates graduate students' perceptions of a research ethics training course, finding increased knowledge and self-efficacy in scientific ethics.

Fraudulent studies are undermining the reliability of systematic reviews - a study of the prevalence of problematic images in preclinical studies of depression

The paper examines the prevalence of fraudulent studies in a systematic review of depression research, finding that 19% of studies had problematic images, which biased review results and were not easily identifiable.

Framework for assessing the risk to a field from fraudulent research

Citation-network analysis of 112,720 Alzheimer's disease papers finds that no single author or paper reaches most of the field; the top 150 authors average 7.8% literature reach.

Prevalence of Problematic Papers in Non-Coding RNA Research

This study finds that 1.79% of ncRNA papers from 2000-2023 were retracted and 5.68% faced PubPeer concerns, with problematic papers increasing over time and impacting research integrity.