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Retraction at @[email protected]'s BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 👏 Collective #FoSci work by Jim G Thornton, Ben Mol, and myself. Lots of repeating patterns in the clinical parameters provided by authors from Kasr al Ainy University Hospital. pubpeer.com/publications...

PubPeer - The value of subcutaneous tissue closure and drain in obese...

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: The value of subcutaneous tissue closure and drain in obese women undergo elective caesarean section: a randomized controlled trial (2025)

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FoSci Releases Report Analyzing Growing Threats to Research Integrity

In Vancouver this week, the Forensic Scientometrics movement presented their first report, based on information from 17 experts in the field, highlighting the wide, often systemic, threats to scientific research.
The post FoSci Releases Report Analyzing Growing Threats to Research Integrity appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/05/fosci-releases-report-analyzing-growing-threats-to-research-integrity/

#AcademicPublishing #digitalscience #ForensicScientometricsmovement #FoSci #LeslieMcIntosh

Mark A. Hanson Mar 11

Just a reminder, we not only wrote about the profiteering nature of the Springer-Nature Discover journal series, but we made a "guess the publisher" game! hal.science/hal-05113253 Game by @[email protected] pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/ #OpenAccess #AcademicSky #FoSci #MDPI #SciPub

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Springer Nature Discovers MDPI

Mark A. Hanson Mar 2

"BMC Genomics wants your money. Study great apes? Get an easy pass through our special issue publication route. We'll peer review it, but implicitly, not as rigorously as we would otherwise." arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 #HonestSci #AcademicSky #FoSci #OpenAccess #ResearchIntegrity

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Mark A. Hanson Feb 24

Spot on stuff here. Nicely done both. Also a seeming endorsement that paying peer reviewers is worth a shot to salvage peer review as an institution. My experiences with @[email protected] from @[email protected] have been very positive so far. #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicSky #FoSci

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Mark A. Hanson Jan 13

PISS is easy to spot & easy to police with special issue tags & editor/author metadata. Journals could include these in xml reported to OpenAlex or CrossREF. Indexers can require them to do so. Efforts like ours and #ScienceSleuths & #FoSci shouldn't have to be the vehicle for essential data. 14/n

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Altmetric Dec 11

This completely fake university was recently uncovered by @[email protected] - it’s fascinating. #FoSci #ResearchIntegrity

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Open Science Pasteur Feb 14, 2025

La déclaration de Paris appelle à "dépolluer" la science et la #LittératureScientifique via la #ForensicScientometrics (#FoSci) : un domaine de recherche émergent visant à vérifier et évaluer l'#IntégritéScientifique de la recherche

➡️ https://openscience.pasteur.fr/2025/01/27/forensic-scientometrics-la-declaration-de-paris-appelle-a-lutter-contre-la-fausse-science/

Forensic Scientometrics : la déclaration de Paris appelle à lutter contre la fausse science

Le 18 décembre 2024, les défenseurs de l’intégrité scientifique ont signé à Paris une déclaration invitant à « dépolluer » la science et la littérature scientifique par le biais de la « Foren…

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Elisabeth Bik Jan 4, 2025

An image from a 2003 scientific paper, where one of the researchers has been found guilty of science misconduct in that same year. This paper was not mentioned in the misconduct report. Can you spot some problems? #ResearchIntegrity #ImageForensics #FoSci

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Andrew Porter Apr 8, 2024

Interesting post here on the possible emergence of a new field of research - Forensic Scientometrics (or #FoSci for short) - bringing together lots of different #ResearchIntegrity strands into one community of practice:

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/04/02/guest-post-fosci-the-emerging-field-of-forensic-scientometrics/

Guest Post: FoSci - The Emerging Field of Forensic Scientometrics - The Scholarly Kitchen

Leslie McIntosh names the emerging field of forensic scientometrics.

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