High-quality peer review has never been more important to validate the science we publish. With research integrity regularly hitting the headlines, especially since the COVID pandemic, publishers and reviewers play a pivotal role in ensuring robust, reliable research gets published, and flawed works do not. The backbone for upholding integrity is peer review, where experts in...
Author: Kim Eggleton, IOP Publishing’s Research Integrity and Inclusion Manager According to Retraction Watch, a website which keeps tabs on research papers withdrawn from scientific journals, from the millions of papers published every year, about 30,000 retractions have been added to the Retraction Watch database. This number is expected to rise dramatically as research misconduct becomes...
By Kim Eggleton, Research Integrity & Inclusion Manager at IOP Publishing The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day (8th March) is ‘Break the Bias’, highlighting the fact that – whether deliberate or unconscious – bias can prevent women from moving ahead. As the #BreakTheBias campaign states: “knowing that bias exists isn’t enough, action is...
