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AI-generated images threaten science – here’s how researchers hope to spot them24 February 2025In this article, Diana Kwon discusses the growing issue of AI-generated fraudulent content in scientific literature, particularly the use of generative AI tools to create fake images and data.
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The Citation of Retracted Papers and Impact on the Integrity of the Scientific Biomedical Literature24 February 2025The article examines the issue of retracted scientific papers. Retractions occur due to errors, misconduct, or fraud, and have significantly increased over the years, particularly with the rise of unethical paper mills.
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Tackling algorithmic bias and promoting transparency in health datasets: the STANDING Together consensus recommendations24 February 2025This paper presents recommendations for the documentation and use of health datasets. The recommendations were developed through a Delphi approach, supplemented by public consultation and international interviews.
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Predatory Journals: What Can We Do to Protect Their Prey?24 February 2025This article discusses the growing problem of predatory journals, which misrepresent themselves as legitimate scholarly publications to exploit authors financially while bypassing academic publishing standards such as peer review and transparency.
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We Need to Recognise That Peer Review is Central to the ‘Social Contract’ of Academic Citizenship11 February 2025An excellent editorial from Flaminio Squazzoni describing the ‘social contract’ and ‘reciprocal obligations’ which underpin the integrity of academic publishing,
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Constructive Peer Review Made Practical: A Guide to the EMPATHY Framework10 February 2025An interesting Editorial from Chief Editor of Journal of Marketing which introduces seven stages of constructive feedback, captured by the mnemonic EMPATHY.
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PUBMET20246 February 2025A summary of the PubMet Summer School on Scholarly Communication. The dual structure of the event emphasised both practical and theoretical approaches to critical issues in research and publishing, offering a comprehensive view of current challenges and innovations in the sector.
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EASE Ukraine – maintaining non-discrimination and neutrality in academic publishing6 January 2025the EASE Ukrainian Regional Chapter launch a new initiative to manage the challenges of maintaining non-discrimination and neutrality in academic publishing.
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The EASE Global Forest has passed 2000 trees!3 January 2025Our offer to plant one tree for every member who renewed their membership before the end of the year has resulted in 237 new trees added to our Global Forest.
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EASE agrees that ‘Hybrid conferences should be the norm’4 November 2024In response to a recent Nature editorial calling for higher quality hybrid conferences, we lend our support to this notion, with a brief insight into our approach to hosting EASE conferences and events.
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SDG Publishers Compact and EASE Environmental Manifesto Survey Results8 October 2024The results of the EASE Environment and Sustainability Committee survey into the adoption and implementation of the SDG Publishers Compact is now published in European Science Editing.
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The EASE Virtual Forest is growing!5 September 2024The latest donation to the EASE Forest takes our grand total up to 1891 trees around the world at 23 different plantations.
