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?? Have questions about research integrity and trust in scholarly publishing? Now's your chance to ask! Thought leaders from Signals join us in our upcoming #ResearchIntegrity webinar to discuss how their platform is helping the scholarly community evaluate research credibility. ?? Submit your questions for the speakers here at registration ?? Register now: https://shorturl.at/hQPUq #ORCIDEvents

NEWS: Silverchair has announced a partnership with Signals to add novel research integrity checks in the ScholarOne Manuscripts workflow. Through this partnership, Silverchair is integrating Signals Manuscript Checks, using webhook notifications and an API to retrieve metadata from submissions. Signals traffic light evaluations are displayed directly in ScholarOne workflows via custom flags. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e5ng9YfP

Last week, Nicko and I attended Researcher to Reader — a great conference where we had the opportunity to speak about ‘The Future of Research Integrity’. As part of our talk, we asked the audience for their views on the future of research integrity. We received some interesting insights, which we’ve shared in our latest Signals blog post ?? https://lnkd.in/em-PHP4T Big thanks to Ben and Michelle for the photos!

We're excited to announce this partnership with Silverchair to bring fully-automated Signals Manuscript Checks to ScholarOne. This integration is available NOW and includes: - Automatic research integrity checks for every submission - Displaying the Signals high-level evaluation of the manuscript directly on ScholarOne - Seamless access to the full manuscript evaluation report on the Signals platform Our Manuscript Checks scan submissions for author, institution and manuscript signals, which are then combined in an overall evaluation of the manuscript for quick and robust research integrity assessment. The full report on the Signals platform provides full and transparent details of the evaluation, to quickly identify potential issues and gather evidence required for further investigations and decisions. A big thank you to the ScholarOne team for their collaboration. It has been a pleasure working on this project and we can’t wait to onboard more journals. We have lots of great ideas and plans for the next iterations of this integration. Stay tuned! To learn more about this integration and to sign up? your journals for this integration please visit the Signals website. https://lnkd.in/et6v9rjg

We were happy to provide Signals data and analysis for this insightful Nature Magazine article by Richard Van Noorden, exploring institutional retraction rates. Institutions play a key role in upholding research integrity. It’s important that we start to understand their challenges so that we can prevent misconduct before publication and quickly correct the scholarly record when issues are discovered. Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/ePGC3VZD Get in touch to learn more about how we can leverage this kind of data to help institutions, publishers, and researchers make informed decisions about the credibility of research.

Today we’re introducing a new initiative in Signals: Expert Contributions. Researchers, sleuths, and subject-matter experts can now share their insights on Signals, amplifying their expertise to make a meaningful impact on correcting the scholarly record. With thousands of contributions already added by leading research integrity sleuths like Elisabeth Bik and Mu Yang, experts can join us to gain recognition for their insights and help restore trust in research. Learn more on our blog: https://lnkd.in/d-RDcXHt

Researchers like René Aquarius are doing essential work to uncover problematic articles in the literature and understand their impact on systematic reviews. Science Magazine has covered the work of René and others in a recent article and highlighted an important topic: systematic reviews are a critical resource for researchers and the public. Unfortunately, publication fraud is threatening their credibility. At Signals, we’ve seen these issues first hand — and what we’ve found is concerning. Systematic reviews, often well cited, appear to be entirely fabricated by bad actors, or are compromised by problematic articles in their evidence base. Here are some examples: ?? https://lnkd.in/eg6M2HTR ?? https://lnkd.in/edY42CeD ?? https://lnkd.in/eEkpa9d8 We’re helping publishers understand and address integrity issues across their portfolios, including in systematic reviews. We’re also working with researchers earlier in the process to remove problematic articles from their evidence base, helping them develop robust, trustworthy reviews. What steps are you taking to address research integrity issues in systematic reviews? Read the article here ?? https://lnkd.in/ePYEchjC

Last year I presented (and launched!) Signals at the STM Innovation Day. I’m excited to be returning to the event, along with Tiago, and presenting Signals as one of the Vesalius Innovation Award finalists. I’ll also be attending the Integrity Day (with Nicko and Tiago), and looking forward to connecting with others in the research integrity community. Send me a message if you’d like to arrange a time to catch up.

At Signals, we’ve spoken to lots of publishers, editors and research integrity professionals this year, and a phrase we hear again and again is, “we don’t know what we don’t know”.? With the research integrity landscape evolving quickly, publishers can be uncertain of the specific issues they’re facing. Read our latest blog post on how Signals helps publishers uncover and understand their journals' research integrity profiles. This enables them to take meaningful action to proactively protect their reputation and maintain trust in the scholarly record. ?? https://lnkd.in/e9Qnrj5w

We are excited to announce that the award ceremony for the #VesaliusInnovationAward will take place in London on December 3, during STM Week. This year's finalists are: ? Clear Skies ? Prophy ? Signals ? Prof. Valmed? - validated medical information GmbH ? Knowledge Gate Group The anticipation is building, and the countdown has officially begun ? ?? https://karger.com/via #KargerPublishers #publishing #StartupAward #innovation #VIA2024