Professor Emeritus of Methodology and Integrity, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
I'm an Amsterdam-based epidemiologist interested in Research Integrity and Open Science, and much more.
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Thanks @elisabethbik.bsky.social for this informative blog post on the #WCRI2026, including your many excellent Bluesky life threads of sessions you attended.
The conference videos will be made public after 3 months on the @wcrifoundation.bsky.social Vimeo channel: vimeo.com/user17566807...
Detecting fake papers was one of the prominent themes of the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity.
As scientific fraud proliferates, so do businesses that aim to stop it cen.acs.org/policy/publi...
Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.
go.nature.com/4dP1rwk
Thanks for documenting and sharing reflections from the 2026 World Conference on Research Integrity in Vancouver.
A valuable resource for continuing conversations on research integrity across contexts and communities.
What if research papers could flag potential problems before publication?
@lakens.bsky.social showcases tools for identifying reporting inconsistencies, citation issues, reproducibility concerns, and other signals relevant to research integrity.
Register free; open to all. tinyurl.com/3wbx9tmr
Surveys show up to 76% of researchers use AI, but self-disclosures in BMJ submissions sit at just 5.7%. There are global standards being drafted to fix this gap but it’s a messy debate over whether to declare simple edits or only full agentic research.
#AcademicSky
📝 Latest Article Alert! 📝
"Shared responsibility to address questionable research practices? – A study of perceived efficacy of organizational research integrity policies"
Simon Fuglsang et al.
→ doi.org/10.1080/0898...
#QuestionableResearchPractices
#ResearcherBhavior
#ResearchIntegrity
Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.
#WCRI2026 is over. I would like to share the summary of several presentations on paper mills.
abalkina.com/wcri-2026-pa...
abalkina.com/wcri-2026-pa...
Part 3 will be released soon.
World Conferences on Research Integrity
Two new facts stand out:
1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!)
2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect.
arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
Accountability in Research: Ethics, Integrity, and Policy
World Congress on Research Integrity 2026, for the first time, included dozens of presentations on paper mills, organizations that sell papers, co-authorship
abalkina.com
Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Anna Abalkina
New on ScienceIntegrityDigest: My report from the 2026 World Conference on Research Integrity in Vancouver.
If you could not make it, there are links to all my BlueSky live posts from the sessions I attended.
#WCRI2026
Read the report here:
scienceintegritydigest.com/2026/05/20/r...
Philip N Cohen
Integrity conference attendees debated when and how authors should declare AI use in papers
Early May, I attended the 2026 World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This conference is held every two years. In 2024, I went to the WCRI in Athens, Greece, and in…
Chemical & Engineering News is a weekly news magazine published by the American Chemical Society, providing professional and technical news and analysis in the fields of chemistry and chemical enginee...
In response to widespread concerns about research integrity, recent years have seen numerous efforts to safeguard against research misconduct and questionable research practices. Research-performin...
New on ScienceIntegrityDigest: My report from the 2026 World Conference on Research Integrity in Vancouver.
If you could not make it, there are links to all my BlueSky live posts from the sessions I attended.
#WCRI2026
Read the report here:
scienceintegritydigest.com/2026/05/20/r...
Early May, I attended the 2026 World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This conference is held every two years. In 2024, I went to the WCRI in Athens, Greece, and in…
