Publication Ethics Webinar: Jan 2016 A Publisher’s View on Research Integrity Paul Peters CEO, Hindawi Publishing Corporation President of OASPA

Publication Ethics Webinar: Jan 2016 What is the role of a publisher with regard to research integrity?

Publication Ethics Webinar: Jan 2016 What sorts of ethics violations are we seeing today?

Publication Ethics Webinar: Jan 2016 Plagiarism

Publication Ethics Webinar: Jan 2016  By far the most common type of ethics violation seen today  CrossCheck is a tool, not a solution  Where does “plagiarism” begin?  Is the cut-off for “self-plagiarism” the same?  What can publishers and editors do about more “sophisticated plagiarism” where no text has been copied word-for-word? Plagiarism

Publication Ethics Webinar: Jan 2016 Peer Review Fraud

Publication Ethics Webinar: Jan 2016  The first case of “Peer Review Fraud” appeared on RetractionWatch in late 2010   By mid 2012 there began to be a steady stream of retractions due to faked reviewer addresses, subsequently resulting in to close to 300 retractions from publishers including Elsevier, Springer, SAGE, Informa, Nature, and Hindawi, among others  Although “fake peer reviewers” appears to be the most common form of peer review fraud, there have also been cases of “fake editors” and even “fake authors”  Publishers have an important role to play in addressing peer review fraud, although it is not an easy job Peer Review Fraud

Publication Ethics Webinar: Jan 2016  We retracted 10 articles last December for peer review fraud  We currently verify the identity of every author, editor, and reviewer  We monitor the IP addresses where manuscripts are submitted from and reviewer/editor decisions are taken  We instituted an Editorial Quality Assurance check at the end of the peer review process to manually look through each review report and editorial decision for any evidence of misconduct Hindawi’s Response

Publication Ethics Webinar: Jan 2016  Publishers, in coordination with organizations like COPE, need to continue working to define best practice when it comes to issues like plagiarism and duplicate publication, since there are still many grey areas  We need better tools to help identify potential cases of plagiarism, since CrossCheck is not perfectly suited for the scholarly publishing environment  ORCID- A good identity system is necessary in order to both identify and respond to cases of research misconduct. So, please consider joining the pledge to make ORCID’s mandatory for your authors at letter What’s Next?

Publication Ethics Webinar: Jan 2016 Thank you Paul Peters CEO, Hindawi Publishing Corporation President of OASPA