International Congress on
Peer Review and Scientific Publication

2022

• 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.

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Clinical trials often unregistered, unpublished. September 11, 2017.

• Medical Xpress
• Lab Manager
• EurekAlert
• JAMA Network
• 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.

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
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