New Journal Scrutinizes the Research Process

Studies in Research Integrity and Peer Review analyze ethics and quality in both science and publishing.

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PUBLICDOMAINIMAGES, PETR KRATOCHVILA new online publication dedicated to studies on quality in science and scientific publishing launched today (May 3), with papers on the repercussions of a retraction, guidelines for producing clinical study reports, and more.

“We need to consider questions such as what causes research to give misleading results, what tempts researchers to cheat, and how best to report and disseminate research findings,” the editors of Research Integrity and Peer Review wrote in an introductory editorial. “In other words, we need research into research, and we need somewhere to publish these findings.”

Peer review at Research Integrity and Peer Review is done openly: authors know who is refereeing their paper, and the reviewers’ assessments are published alongside accepted manuscripts.

In one of the journal’s inaugural publications, Paul van der Vet of the Netherlands Bioinformatics Center and Harm Nijveen of Wageningen Unviersity, the Netherlands, reported on their examination of citations a retracted paper received before and after it was pulled from ...

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    Kerry Grens

    Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director until 2021. Before joining The Scientist in 2013, she was a stringer for Reuters Health, the senior health and science reporter at WHYY in Philadelphia, and the health and science reporter at New Hampshire Public Radio. Kerry got her start in journalism as a AAAS Mass Media fellow at KUNC in Colorado. She has a master’s in biological sciences from Stanford University and a biology degree from Loyola University Chicago.

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