10th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication
September 3-5, 2025
PROGRAM
Registration/Check In
Early registration available on Tuesday, September 2, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday, September 3, 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Thursday and Friday, September 4 and 5, 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Plenary Sessions
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
Registration, Breakfast, and Visit Exhibits
8:00
Welcome
8:05 AM – 8:30 AM
The Drummond Rennie Lecture
Forward to the Past—Making Contributors Accountable
Ana Marušić (Croatia)
8:30 AM – 9:50 AM
Author and Reviewer Use of AI
Authors Self-disclosed Use of Artificial Intelligence in Research: Submissions to 49 BMJ Group Biomedical Journals
Isamme AlFayyad, Maurice Zeegers, Lex Bouter, Helen Macdonald, Sara Schroter (Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom)
Artificial Intelligence Use and Acknowledgment in Medical Research Writing Among Chinese Scholars
Yang Zhang, Mengyuan Duan, Guoguang Zhao, Penghu Wei, Xiuyuan Hao (China)
Factors Associated With Author and Reviewer Declared Use of AI in Medical Journals
Roy Perlis, Annette Flanagin, Michael Berkwits, Jacob Kendall-Taylor, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo (United States)
Quantifying and Assessing the Use of Generative AI by Authors and Reviewers in the Cancer Research Field
Daniel Evanko, Michael Di Natale (United States)
9:50 AM – 10:20 AM
Refreshment Break and Visit Exhibits
10:20 AM – 12:00 PM
Authorship and Integrity Issues
Comparison of Reasons for Retraction of Biomedical Articles by Women and Men Authors
Ana-Catarina Pinho-Gomes, Carinna Hockham, Mark Woodward (United Kingdom)
Paper Mill Use of Fake Personas to Manipulate the Peer Review Process
Tim Kersjes (Netherlands)
Authorship Changes as an Indicator of Research Integrity Concerns in Submissions to Academic Journals
Coromoto Power Febres, Julia Gunn, Laura Wilson (United Kingdom, United States)
Notifying Authors That They Have Cited a Retracted Article and Future Citations of Retracted Articles: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Nicholas DeVito, Christine Cunningham, Ben Goldacre (United Kingdom)
How a Questionable Research Network Manipulated Scholarly Publishing
Leslie McIntosh, Hélène Draux, Elizabeth Smee, Cynthia Hudson Vitale (United Kingdom, United States)
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch and Visit Exhibits
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Diversity and Research Environment
Assessment of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Concerns by JAMA Network Journal Peer Reviewers: A Mixed Methods Analysis
Michael Mensah, Anand Habib, Jacob Kendall-Taylor, Mya Roberson, Kanade Shinkai, Annette Flanagin, Preeti Malani (United States)
Assessment of an Intervention to Equalize the Proportion of Funded Grant Applications for Underrepresented Groups at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Anne Lasinsky, James Wrightson, Matthew Hogel, Alannah Brown, Adrian Mota, Karim Khan, Clare Ardern (Canada)
Research Environment Indicators From the UK Research Excellence Framework Statements
Noémie Aubert Bonn, Lukas Hughes-Noehrer (United Kingdom)
2:30 PM – 3:10 PM
Refreshment Break and Visit Exhibits
3:10 PM – 5:30 PM
Research Misconduct and Integrity
Characterizing Problematic Images in Retracted Scientific Articles
João Phillipe Cardenuto, Daniel Moreira, Anderson Rocha (Brazil, United States)
Misidentification of Scanning Electron Microscope Instruments in the Peer-Reviewed Materials Science and Engineering Literature
Reese Richardson, Jeonghyun Moon, Spencer Hong, Luís Amaral (United States)
Retractions and Democracy Index Scores Across 167 countries
Ahmad Sofi-Mahmudi, Hesam Salmabadi (Canada)
Metrics to Detect Small-Scale and Large-Scale Citation Orchestration
Iakovos Evdaimon, John Ioannidis, Giannis Nikolentzos, Michail Chatzianastasis, George Panagopoulos, Michalis Vazirgiannis (France, Greece, Luxembourg, United States)
Scale and Resilience in Organizations Enabling Systematic Scientific Fraud
Reese Richardson, Spencer Hong, Jennifer Byrne, Thomas Stoeger, Luís Amaral (Australia, United States)
Patterns of Paper Mill Papers and Retraction Challenges
Anna Abalkina, Svetlana Kleiner (Canada, Germany)
Sustainable Approaches to Upholding High Integrity Standards in the Face of Large-Scale Threats: Insights From PLOS One
Renee Hoch, Emily Chenette (United Kingdom, United States)
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Welcome Reception
Thursday, September 4
8:00 AM
Morning Welcome and Housekeeping
8:05 AM
The Douglas G. Altman Lecture
Does the Journal Article Have a Future?
Malcolm MacLeod (Scotland)
8:30 AM – 10:10 AM
Bias, Study Outcomes, and Reporting Concerns
Immortal Time Bias Prevalence and Effects on Estimates in Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
Jae Il Shin, Minseo Kim, Dong Keon Yon, Seung Won Lee, Masoud Rahmati, Marco Solmi, André Carvalho, Ai Koyanagi, Lee Smith, John Ioannidis (Australia, Canada, Iran, South Korea, Spain, United Kingdom, United States)
Effect Estimates for the Same Outcomes Designated as Primary vs Secondary in Randomized Clinical Trials: A Meta-Research Study
Yiwen Jiang, Yuanxi Jia, Karen Robinson, Jinling Tang (China, Singapore, United States)
Detection and Monitoring of Potential Outcome Reporting Bias Using Large Language Models: Application to FDA-Regulated Drug Trials
Ian Bulovic, Susmitha Wunnava, Wonjin Yoon, Adam Dunn, Timothy Miller, Florence Bourgeois (Australia, United States)
Data Repurpose in AI Studies and Scientific Outcomes
Yulin Yu, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Daniel Romero (United States)
Prevalence of Reports With the Phrase “to Our Knowledge” and an Editorial Intervention to Reduce Such Reporting
Nicola Di Girolamo, Reint Meursinge Reynders, Ugo Di Girolamo (Netherlands, United States)
10:10 AM – 10:40 AM
Refreshment Break and Visit Exhibits
10:40 AM – 12:00 PM
Peer Review Models
Peer Reviews of Peer Reviews: A Randomized Controlled Trial and Other Assessments
Alexander Goldberg, Ivan Stelmakh, Kyunghyun Cho, Alice Oh, Alekh Agarwal, Danielle Belgrave, Nihar Shah (Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States)
Anonymizing Reviewers to Each Other in Peer Review Discussions: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Charvi Rastogi, Xiangchen Song, Zhijing Jin, Ivan Stelmakh, Hal Daume, Kun Zhang, Nihar Shah (Russia, United States)
Dual Anonymous and Distributed Peer Review for Proposal Review Rankings at the ALMA Observatory
John Carpenter, Andrea Corvillon (Chile)
Comparison of Quality of Published and Unpublished Peer Review Reports
Elena Álvarez- García, Daniel Garcia-Costa, Flaminio Squazzoni, Mario Malički, Bahar Mehmani, Francisco Grimaldo (Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United States)
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch and Visit Exhibits
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Editorial and Publishing Processes and Models
Revision of Research Abstracts Through the Editorial Process
Christos Kotanidis, Sarah Gorey, Harleen Marwah, Abarna Pearl, Darren Taichman, Mary Beth Hamel (United States)
Manuscript Characteristics Associated With Editorial Review and Peer Review Outcomes at Science and Science Advances
Nicholas LaBerge, Sam Zhang, Daniel Larremore, Aaron Clauset (United States)
Investigating Changes in Common Vocabulary Terms in eLife Assessments Across Versions in a Publish, Review, Curate Model
Nicola Adamson, Andy Collings (United Kingdom)
2:30 PM – 3:45 PM
Poster Sessions, Refreshment Break, and Visit Exhibits
3:45 PM – 5:05 PM
Peer Review Times and Payment Incentives
Results of Testing the Gold Standard 2-Week Reviewer Deadline
Emilie Gunn, Kelly Brooks, Stephanie Valladao (United States)
Analysis of Decisions and Lead-Time in Ethical Review Boards in Sweden
Emmanuel Zavalis, Love Ahnström, Natasha Ohlsson, Gustave Nilsonne (Sweden)
Monetary Incentives for Peer Review at a Medical Journal: A Quasi-Randomized Experimental Study
Christopher Cotton, Abid Alam, Sophie Tosta, Timothy Buchman, David Maslove (Canada, United States)
Exploring Views on Remuneration for Review: A Survey of BMJ’s Patient and Public Reviewers
Sara Schroter, Rebecca Harmstron, Emma Doble, Sophie Cook, Amy Price (United Kingdom, United States)
5:05 PM – 5:35 PM
Journal Prestige Can and Should Be Earned
Simine Vazire (Australia)
Friday, September 5
8:00 AM
Morning Welcome and Housekeeping
8:05 AM
AI in Research and Scientific Publication
Zak Kohane (US)
8:30 AM – 9:50 AM
Use of AI to Assess Quality and Reporting
Natural Language Processing to Assess the Role of Preprints in COVID-19 Policy Guidance
Nicholas Evans, Samuel Angelli-Nichols, Emma Chang-Rabley, Yara Omar, Rachel Nas, Mikaela Finnegan, Rocco Casagrande, Emily Ricotta (United States)
Leveraging Large Language Models for Assessing the Adherence of Randomized Controlled Trial Publications to Reporting Guidelines
Lan Jiang, Xiangji Ying, Mengfei Lan, Andrew Brown, Colby Vorland, Evan Mayo-Wilson, Halil Kilicoglu (United States)
Understanding How a Language Model Assesses the Quality of Randomized Controlled Trials: Applying SHapley Additive exPlanations to Encoder Transformer Classification Models
Fangwen Zhou, Muhammad Afzal, Rick Parrish, Ashirbani Saha, R. Brian Haynes, Alfonso Iorio, Cynthia Lokker (Canada, United Kingdom)
Using GPT to Identify Changes in Clinical Trial Outcomes Registered on ClinicalTrials.gov
Xiangji Ying, Colby Vorland, Kiran Ninan, Jean-Pierre Oberste, Andrew Brown, Riaz Qureshi, Sirui Zhang, Nicholas DeVito, Matthew Page, Ian Saldanha, Halil Kilicoglu, Evan Mayo-Wilson (Australia, United Kingdom, United States)
9:50 AM – 10:20 AM
Refreshment Break and Visit Exhibits
10:20 AM – 12:00 PM
Open Science, Availability of Protocols, and Registration
Perceived Risks and Barriers to Open Research Practices in UK Higher Education
Lukas Hughes-Noehrer, Noémie Aubert Bonn (United Kingdom)
Use of an Open Science Checklist and Reproducibility of Findings
Ayu Putu Madri Dewi, Melissa Rethlefsen, Sara Schroter, Florian Naudet, Nicholas DeVito, Constant Vinatier, Inge Stegeman, Mariska Leeflang, Gowri Gopalakrishna (France, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States)
Nonregistration, Discontinuation, and Nonpublication of Randomized Trials in Switzerland, the UK, Germany, and Canada: An Updated Meta-Research Study
Benjamin Speich, Ala Heravi, Johannes Schwenke, Christof Schönenberger, Lena Hausheer, Dmitry Gryaznov, Jason Busse, Manuela Covino, Szimonetta Lohner, Malena Chiaborelli, Ruben Ramirez, Ramon Saccilotto, Erik von Elm, Arnav Agarwal, Julian Hirt, David Mall, Alain Amstutz, Selina Epp, Dominik Mertz, Anette Blümle, Belinda von Niederhäusern, Ayodele Odutayo, Alexandra Griessbach, Sally Hopewell, Matthias Briel (Canada, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, United Kingdom)
Prospective Trial Registration of BMJ Submissions
David Blanco, Elizabeth Loder, Sophie Cook, Sara Schroter (Spain, United Kingdom, United States)
Registered Clinical Trial Trend Evolution in East Asia Compared With the US
Eunhye Lee, San Lee, Jae Il Shin, John Ioannidis (South Korea, United States)
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch and Visit Exhibits
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Open Science and Data Sharing
Researcher Adherence to Journal Data Sharing Policies: A Meta-Research Study
Aidan Tan, Yiyi Lin, Michellie Lian, Zhilin Ren, Tony Lian, Angela Webster, Anna Seidler (Australia)
A Funder-Led Intervention to Increase the Sharing of Data, Code, Protocols, and Key Lab Materials
Robert Thibault, Dana Cobb-Lewis, Matt Lewis, Devin Snyder, Cornelis Blauwendraat, Sonya Dumanis (United States)
Medical Journal Policies on Requirements for Clinical Trial Registration, Reporting Guidelines, and Data Sharing: A Systematic Review
Kyobin Hwang, Zexing Song, Marsida Stafa, Jodie Chiu, An-Wen Chan (Canada)
2:30 PM – 3:45 PM
Poster Sessions, Refreshment Break, and Visit Exhibits
3:45 PM – 5:05 PM
AI for Detecting Problems and in Peer Review
Leveraging Large Language Models for Detecting Citation Quotation Errors in Medical Literature
M. Janina Sarol, Jodi Schneider, Halil Kilicoglu (United States)
Automating the Detection of Promotional (Hype) Language in Biomedical Research
Bojan Batalo, Neil Millar, Erica Shimomoto (Japan)
Evaluation of a Method to Detect Peer Reviews Generated by Large Language Models
Vishisht Rao, Aounon Kumar, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Nihar Shah (United States)
Quality and Comprehensiveness of Peer Reviews of Journal Submissions Produced by Large Language Models vs Humans
Fares Alahdab, Juan Franco, Helen Macdonald, Sara Schroter (United States, United Kingdom)
Abstracts to be presented as Posters will be available soon.
Speakers
