Science Integrity Alliance

#SIAcast, our podcast on research integrity and meta-research, now has listeners in 10 countries, and we thank each of you for tuning in. 🔗 www.sci-integrity.com/siacast-prev...

🔓Can science be open and secure at the same time? 🎙️On the new #SIAcast, Richard Gold, Monica Granados, María Bardají Cruz and Leslie McIntosh argue it can, and that both depend on trust. Hosted by Jonny Coates and Katharina Miller. 🔗 www.sci-integrity.com/siacast-prev... #OAWeek #ResearchSecurity

“Shared datasets and clear methods make findings reproducible and science more trustworthy...” Beth Montague-Hellen (The Francis Crick Institute) for #REACHmag Issue 5. 🔗Subscribe to read: www.sci-integrity.com/reach/improv... #OAWeek #OpenData #OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #REACHmag

“TOP 2025 identifies four study types that directly contribute to the verifiability of the research literature.” David Mellor (Center for Open Science) for #REACHmag Issue 5. 🔗 www.sci-integrity.com/reach/a-flex... #OAWeek #OpenScience #Reproducibility #TOPGuidelines #ResearchIntegrity

“Society benefits enormously from shared resources, yet we have failed to build the institutions, financing, and public commitments necessary to sustain them.” Anna Tumadóttir (Creative Commons) for #REACHmag Issue 5. 🔗 www.sci-integrity.com/reach/what-w... #OAWeek #OpenSource #ResearchIntegrity

💸 “The Price of Openness” in #REACHmag Issue 5 follows the money behind open access: who pays for it, what the peer review it funds delivers and how funders, governments and library consortia around the world are exploring alternatives. #OAweek 🔗 www.sci-integrity.com/reach/the-pr...

“Repositories, properly resourced and interconnected, offer a persistent, institutionally governed layer of accountability beneath the scholarly record.” Kathleen Shearer and Diana Furcila (COAR) for #REACHmag Issue 5. 🔗 www.sci-integrity.com/reach/reposi... #OAweek #OpenAccess #ResearchIntegrity

REACH Issue 5 is out for #OpenAccessWeek, and this year's theme, "The Cost of Knowledge," runs through most of its pages. See who pays for openness and what that money buys, how repositories build trust and what it would take to sustain the commons, and more! 🔗 www.sci-integrity.com/reach

Welcoming Lucy Walton (Western Sydney University) and Jason Hu (Taylor & Francis, COPE Council) to the SIA Editorial Committee, a group of people who see the research ecosystem from very different places within it. 🔗 Meet the Committee: www.sci-integrity.com/contributors...

10 Sept

ATLAS is a living encyclopedia of scholarly terms, built to close the gaps in meaning that keep fields from working together. The first round of community feedback is now open for SIA contributors and subscribers. Not in the community yet? Subscribe to take part: 🔗 www.sci-integrity.com/subscribe

8 Sept

A clearer protocol, a shared dataset or a checklist that people actually use will travel to the next collaborator, then the next lab, then the next field. RIPL is now open with nearly 200 free solutions. Start the ripples that change research practices: www.sci-integrity.com/ripl #researchintegrity

journals.plos.orgA call for research to address the threat of paper millsResearch paper mills are covert organizations that provide low quality or fabricated manuscripts to paying clients. This Perspective, written by members of the United2Act Research Working Group, propo...

Jennifer Byrne and the United2Act team have called for funding and coordinated research on paper mills, arguing that the problem belongs alongside emerging pandemics and climate change as a global challenge 🧵1/4 @jabyrnesci.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

sci-integrity.comScience Integrity AllianceTogether, we lead the movement toward a more transparent, accountable, and trustworthy scientific community.

At the Science Integrity Alliance, we support the people and initiatives working to keep the scientific record trustworthy, and we give visibility to their important work so that researchers, editors, institutions and policymakers can act on what is already known. 3/4 www.sci-integrity.com

Read more about the misuse of AI by paper mills in REACH. 4/4 www.sci-integrity.com/reach/the-9t... #researchintegrity #papermills #REACHmag

More recently at #WCRI2026, Renee Hoch presented PLOS data on large paper mill cases showing a sharp rise among articles published in 2020, another spike in 2021 and high levels ever since, and argued that AI makes paper mill content easier to produce and harder to detect. 2/4

(1/4) The challenges facing research are systemic, crossing institutions, disciplines and borders, and no single player can answer them alone. This is why it matters that we do not always understand each other.

(3/4) ATLAS is a new encyclopedia that brings those definitions together instead of replacing them and adds context, a real example and an infographic. Every entry is opened for comment across fields, sectors and countries, then revised until it works for all of them.

(4/4) ATLAS is just getting started. The first two entries were presented at the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity in May. Many more are being written, and the first rounds of community feedback start soon. 👀 Stay tuned to find out how you can take part! www.sci-integrity.com/atlas

(2/4) Definitions already exist for most of the terms we use every day, written carefully by people who know their field. But each one comes from inside a single community. It makes sense to the people who wrote it, less so to everyone else.

13 Aug

Is the reproducibility crisis actually a crisis? Episode 2 of SIAcast: Jonny Coates and co-host Emmanuel Boakye on how frustrated researchers built a movement now active in about 20 countries. www.sci-integrity.com/siacast-prev... @ukrepro.bsky.social @redebrrepro.bsky.social @jacoates.bsky.social

6 Aug

What counts as a scientific contribution? The ISC Forum on Publishing and Research Assessment is asking which kinds go unrecognized, and why. Open to anyone in research, anonymous, 15 minutes, closes 31 August. Two takes on the problem from REACH magazine: (1/3)

International Science Council (ISC)@sciencecouncil.bsky.social

The ISC Forum on Publishing and Research Assessment is running a survey to understand what kinds of scientific contributions currently go unrecognized, and why. Deadline: 31 August 2026. https://council.science/news/survey-what-counts-as-a-scientific-contribution/

sci-integrity.comCRediT Where It's Due: How a Simple Taxonomy Can Strengthen Research Integrity | Science Integrity

6 Aug

Liz Allen and Veronique Kiermer on CRediT, the taxonomy that names 14 contributor roles, and what it can and cannot fix: (2/3) www.sci-integrity.com/reach/credit... @verokiermer.bsky.social @nisoinfo.bsky.social

sci-integrity.comThe H-Index | Science Integrity

6 Aug

Pedro Veliça on what a large h-index sits on top of: (3/3) www.sci-integrity.com/reach/comics-4 @pedromics.bsky.social

sci-integrity.comThe Center for Scientific Integrity: Keeping Watch on the Scientific Record | Science Integrity

5 Aug

@retractionwatch.com turns 16 this week, with a database now past 66,000 retractions. Its parent nonprofit, the Center for Scientific Integrity, is one of our partners. We asked Ivan Oransky about the work behind it for REACH’s Partner Focus: www.sci-integrity.com/reach/the-ce...

go.nature.com‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review warsReview mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle?

It started with a misspelled word. Nature’s feature on review mills builds on the work of María Ángeles Oviedo-García, who coined the term. In summer 2023 she spotted a typo in an open peer review, searched for it, and found the same report filed by different reviewers. 1/3

Nature@nature.com

Review mills are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle? go.nature.com/4wIPjVW

sci-integrity.comThe Making of a Sleuth: Inside the Hunt for Review Mills | Science Integrity

That was the first review mill. More than 80 have been documented since, across 1,000+ reviewer reports and 100+ named reviewers. Her own account, free to read in REACH: 2/3 www.sci-integrity.com/reach/the-ma...

Einstein Foundation Berlin

Zimmer’s piece follows what comes after: the authors, journals and publishers left to sort out the damage, and the citation pressures that make review mills worth running. 3/3 @katarinazimmer.bsky.social

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The #EinsteinFoundationAward was prominently featured at #WCRI2026. Thank you to @sci-integrity.com for this insightful conference report – a recommended read for everyone who couldn't attend in person!

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🚦All integrity roads met in Vancouver. See what key voices at #WCRI2026 had to say about AI, research security, and Indigenous knowledge systems. Read the full REACH coverage and explore more articles in our interactive flipbook: www.sci-integrity.com/reach @wcrifoundation.bsky.social

sci-integrity.comCRediT Where It's Due: How a Simple Taxonomy Can Strengthen Research Integrity | Science Integrity

2 Aug

Crossref’s support for the CRediT taxonomy starts to close a gap Liz Allen and Veronique Kiermer wrote about in REACH Issue 3. Read the full article on a decade of CRediT, what it has changed, and what still limits its implementation. @verokiermer.bsky.social www.sci-integrity.com/reach/credit...

Crossref@crossref.org

Schema 5.5 is officially here 🎉 Crossref metadata can now better represent the many ways people contribute to research, and the many roles played by each contributor👏 Explore what the new schema supports 🔗https://doi.org/10.64000/6xx3c-nmp80 #CrossrefUpdate #Schema55 @Patricia Feeney

27 July

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Paul Whaley

@dangerwhale.bsky.social

I'm pleased to be on the Editorial Committee for @sci-integrity.com and I recommend you read the latest issue of REACH. Especially if, like me, you were not able to attend the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity - everything there is in here!

Science Integrity Alliance@sci-integrity.com

The April–June 2026 issue of REACH is now live! 🎉 🔗 www.sci-integrity.com/reach Our special coverage takes you inside the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity in Vancouver, where 700+ people from 57 countries met to confront the forces reshaping how science is done and trusted. 🧵 1/7

🤝 Partner Focus: Ivan Oransky of the Center for Scientific Integrity on keeping watch on the scientific record. …plus what’s trending across the research community, and more. 6/7

Subscribers can also continue the conversation on HIKE, SIA’s community forum, where interviews with WCRI voices sit alongside our Special Report conversations. Join in and add your voice. 👉 www.sci-integrity.com/group/hike/d... 7/7

🤖 SIA Special Report, Part II: AI Stress Points in Scholarly Publishing moves beyond the editorial office, from retractions that language models miss to AI agents posing as peer reviewers. 4/7

🔬 RE: CHECK: New Evidence on Reproducibility Across the Social and Behavioral Sciences, weighing what recent large-scale studies can tell us about whether published results hold up. 5/7

There’s more inside this issue: 🔎 Chronicles: how a chance discovery led MA Oviedo-García to uncover more than 80 review mills, the coordinated networks that exploit peer review through coercive citations. 2/7

🎙️ Voices: Leslie McIntosh on paper mills, automated screening, and why research integrity and research security are converging. 3/7

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Luciana Machado

@machadolac.bsky.social

8 May

That’s a wrap on #WCRI2026! 🇨🇦 Four days of inspiring talks, great conversations, and gorgeous Vancouver weather. So good to see SIA’s partners, Advisory Board, and contributors in person. New connection? Create your account, subscribe, and let’s keep talking! 🔗 www.sci-integrity.com

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5 May

A ABEC Brasil está no cenário internacional na 9ª WCRI 2026, em Vancouver! A diretoria destacou o pioneirismo do Programa ABEC Educação e apresentou iniciativas globais pela integridade e ciência aberta em parceria com a SIA. @wcrifoundation.bsky.social @sci-integrity.com #scientificintegrity

sci-integrity.comSIAcast Preview | Science Integrity Alliance

4 May

Still thinking about this morning's plenary on paper mills at #WCRI2026? In the first episode of SIAcast, Jonny Coates and Yagmur Ozturk sit down with research integrity experts René Aquarius and Joanna Diong to talk about many of the same pressures. Listen at www.sci-integrity.com/siacast-prev...

3 May

🌐 The SIA Subscription is now live. Three new resources for the research integrity community: 💬 HIKE, an expert-led forum 📖 ATLAS, a practical encyclopedia 🎙️ SIAcast, a new podcast Plus REACH magazine, training, events, and more. 👉🏻 www.sci-integrity.com/subscribe

Center for Effective Global Action

2 May

We’re excited to catch up with the research integrity community at #WCRI2026 in Vancouver. SIA is sponsoring as an exhibitor and presenting two posters. Visit posters 89 and 135, and stop by booth 6 to learn how you can join the Alliance. See you there! 🇨🇦 #researchintegrity #openscience #WCRI

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6 Apr

CEGA’s @ucbitss.bsky.social was recently featured in @sci-integrity.com’s REACH magazine after being awarded the 2023 Einstein Foundation Award for its work to advance open science. 📖 Read the feature here: go.cega.org/REACHmag

go.cega.orgREACH January-March 2026 | Science Integrity AllianceREACH is a modern, interactive, and comprehensive digital magazine designed to meet the shared needs of all stakeholders in the research community.

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Ulrike Pannasch

@up8.bsky.social

16 Mar

Honored to highlight the incredible award winners: among them @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @pubpeer.com, @cos.io, @ucbitss.bsky.social, @guyattgh.bsky.social, @psysciacc.bsky.social, @helenajambor.bsky.social, @sofiaforss.bsky.social & more. Nominate & Apply by April 30! award.einsteinfoundation.de

Science Integrity Alliance@sci-integrity.com

The January-March 2026 issue of REACH is now live! 🎉 📘Inside: CRediT, the Einstein Foundation Award, Cochrane's 30th anniversary, Jennifer Byrne on paper mills, our SIA Special Report on AI Stress Points in Scholarly Publishing (Part I), and much more! 👉🏻 www.sci-integrity.com/reach-januar...

sci-integrity.comREACH January-March 2026 | Science Integrity AllianceREACH is a modern, interactive, and comprehensive digital magazine designed to meet the shared needs of all stakeholders in the research community.

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BITSS

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16 Mar

Thank you @sci-integrity.com for featuring BITSS in the latest REACH issue! Honored to be referenced on page 6, along with other recipients of the Einstein Foundation Award 👏

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Elisabeth Bik

@elisabethbik.bsky.social

16 Mar

The latest issue of REACH e-magazine, published by @sci-integrity.com, is out! * spotlight on the @einsteinberlin.bsky.social Award * 30th anniversary of Cochrane * CRediT * INSPECT-SR * interview with @jabyrnesci.bsky.social * the Stockholm Declaration www.sci-integrity.com/reach-januar...

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Jamie Cummins

@jamiecummins.bsky.social

17 Mar

It was an honour to have RegCheck featured in this most recent issue of REACH magazine. Check it out below!

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14 Mar