EASE Webinar: How technology and data can help editors uphold research integrity

Sarah Jenkins

Senior Director for Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics, Elsevier

Sarah Jenkins is the Senior Director for Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics at Elsevier.  Sarah and her team promote research integrity and publishing ethics through policies, best practices, and education, support Elsevier’s Publishing Teams and Editors to investigate and resolve ethics cases and work with experts across Elsevier to build tools and develop processes to detect unethical practices during the manuscript submission and peer-review process.

Sam Parker

Senior Product Manager, Wiley

As a Senior Product Manager at Wiley, Sam drives the product direction of our research integrity screening solutions, charting the roadmap and development of our services to tackle emerging industry threats at speed. With a focus on addressing researcher misconduct and papermills, Sam’s recent work has seamlessly integrated proactive solutions into publishing workflows across our diverse portfolio, leveraging evidence-based approaches and AI.

Prior to working at Wiley, Sam spent the last 10 years of his scholarly publishing career at multiple forward-thinking publishers, innovating around research integrity, editorial platforms, and transforming publisher flows.

Sam will offer a behind the scenes look at Wiley’s evolving multi-signal integrity approach and how they’re creating spaces for rapid experimentation with innovative new solutions.

D.J. Anning

Senior Data Analyst, Elsevier

D.J. Anning is a Senior Data Analyst at Elsevier, working on investigative tools and data-driven approaches to detection and prevention of publishing ethics issues. Previously, he was an investigator and manager focusing on large-scale and network cases in Elsevier’s Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics team. He has a background in digital humanities research and data engineering.

D.J. will focus on ways of combining technological solutions with editorial and investigative expertise to limit the activity of organized networks of bad actors and help safeguard the scholarly record. It will examine both recurring and emergent patterns of coordinated misconduct, and look at how new technologies can support colleagues to tackle concealed or distributed forms of manipulation of the publishing process that elude human screening alone.

Ryan Begley

Research Integrity Manager, Frontiers

As Research Integrity Manager at Frontiers, Ryan leads a team that conducts manuscript pre-screening before peer review, investigates integrity concerns both before and after publication, and continually refines the tools and workflows that support these efforts.

Recent initiatives have centred on establishing new AI guidelines and developing in-house agents to assist Research Integrity specialists during their day-to-day work. Ryan’s particular areas of interest focus on improving operational efficiency so that our teams have the means and capacity to address the ever-changing issues publishers face.

In this session, he will highlight Frontiers’ pre-screening systems and introduce the department’s exploratory work on investigative AI agents designed to enhance the accuracy and speed of specialist decisions.