Media Coverage

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Tenth Peer Review Congress, 2025

• Europe’s largest paper mill? 1,500 research articles linked to Ukrainian network. Nature. September 4, 2025.

• Digital Science investigation shows millions of taxpayers’ money has been awarded to researchers associated with fictitious network. Global News Wire. September 4, 2025.

• Researchers linked to fake network awarded millions in funding. Times Higher Education. September 5, 2025.

• Digital Science investigation shows millions of taxpayers’ money has been awarded to researchers associated with fictitious network. Global News Wire. September 4, 2025.

• Scalene 44: Peer Review Congress 2025. Scalene. September 7, 2025.

• Far more authors use AI to write science papers than admit it, publisher reports. Science. September 12, 2025.

• Drummond Rennie (1936-2025), in his own words. Retraction Watch. September 15, 2025.

• Peer Review Congress Chicago. Science Integrity Digest. September 16, 2025

• Drummond Rennie: Tributes are paid to “prophet of peer review” after his death at 89. BMJ. September 17, 2025.

• Remembering Drummond Rennie—Champion of Integrity in Science and Scientific Publication. JAMA. September 19, 2025

• Whose papers have an edge at Science? In unusual study, journal looks in the mirror. Science. September 23, 2025.

• Drummond Rennie: medical editor and elegant prose stylist who championed scientific standards and integrity. BMJ. September 24, 2025.

• Drummond Rennie obituary. The Guardian. October 10, 2025.

• Drummond Rennie. The Lancet. October 11, 2025.

Ninth Peer Review Congress, 2022

• Ready, Set, Share! Science. January 25, 2023

• How to Decide Which Medical and Health Information You Should Trust. Commonwealth Club, September 12, 2022.

• Academic publishers turn to AI software to catch bad scientists doctoring data. The Register, September 12, 2022.

• Reviewers award higher marks when a paper’s author is famous. Science, September 13, 2022.

• Guest Post — Integrity and Trust in Peer Reviewed Literature: Will Journals Be Alone in Doing the Heavy Lifting? The Scholarly Kitchen, September 23, 2022.

• ‘Honorary authors’ of scientific papers abound—but they probably shouldn’t. Science. September 28, 2022.

• News at a glance: Many journals, one peer review. Science. September 29, 2022.

• When emails asking to withdraw manuscripts started repeating themselves, an editor got suspicious. Retraction Watch. September 30, 2022.

Eighth Peer Review Congress, 2017

• Bastian H. Bias, Conflicts, Spin: The 8th Olympiad of research on science & publishing begins. PLOS Blogs. September 10, 2017.

• Oransky I. The Olympics of research into scientific publishing is happening now. Follow along here. Retraction Watch. September 20, 2017.

• Bastian H. Good enough? Editors, Statistics & Grant Peer Review. September 11, 2017.

• Clinical trials often unregistered, unpublished. Medical Xpress. September 11, 2017

• Oranksy I. Do interim results need a warning label? MedPage Today. September 11, 2017.

• Watch out for hype—science ‘spin’ prevalent, researchers warn. EurekAlert. September 11. 2017.

• Bastian H. Innovations in peer review and scientific publishing. PLOS Blogs: Absolutely Maybe. September 12, 2017.

• Enserink M. Plan for new medical preprint server receives a mixed response. Science. September 12, 2017.

• McCook A. Authorship for sale: some journals willing to add authors to papers they didn’t write. Retraction Watch. September 13, 2017.

• The easy way to become an author. Genomeweb. September 14, 2017.

• Meadows A. Seven things I learned at the Eighth International Peer Review Congress. The Scholarly Kitchen. September 15, 2017.

• Han AP. Project to “fact check” genetic studies leads to three more retractions. And it’s just getting started. Retraction Watch. September 15, 2017.

• LeMieux J. Peer Review Congress Tries To Solve Publishing Issues. American Council on Science and Health website. September 18, 2017.

• Moylan E. What does transparency in peer review mean to you? BMC Research in Progress Blog. September 21, 2017.

• Enserink M. Few authors choose anonymous peer review, massive study of Nature journals shows. Science. September 22, 2017.

Seventh Peer Review Congress, 2013

• Bad research rising: The 7th Olympiad of research on biomedical publication—Scientific American

• Peer Review Cuts Down Clinical Trial Spin—MedPage Today

• Papers Trail: Researchers Track Fate of Duplicate and Retracted Scientific Studies—ScienceInsider

• Researchers less willing to share study details, according to journal’s survey—Spoonful of Medicine

• Maximizing the Impact of Research: New Reporting Guidelines Collection from PLOS—Speaking of Medicine

• Conflicts of Interest Often Under-reported in Clinical Trials—MedPage Today

• Academic spin: How to dodge & weave past research exaggeration—Scientific American

• What happened to Joachim Boldt’s 88 papers that were supposed to be retracted?—Retraction Watch

• Striving for a More Perfect Peer Review Editors Confront Strengths, Flaws of Biomedical Literature

• Of Conflicts and Clinical Trials: Researchers Report New Results—ScienceInsider

• Unreliable research: Trouble at the lab—The Economist