lexbouter.bsky.social

I'm an Amsterdam-based epidemiologist interested in #ResearchIntegrity and #OpenScience, among many other things. More on my professional background can be found on bit.ly/2NE347B

Study finds "retractions due to data problems have increased significantly" since 2000. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This looks like a very interesting conference, with some great speakers: buff.ly/Wj4DpcX. Jennifer Byrne, who will be busy as she is organising and talking, will present on "Paper Mills, Fraud and more" Jennifer is well known, and published in this area - much more…

"Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication" #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicFreedom #WCRI2026 #WCRI theguardian.com/education/2025…

"Scientific publishing needs urgent reform to retain trust in research process" #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI theguardian.com/science/2025/j…

Use of an #OpenScience Checklist & Findings Reproducibility from @SaraSchroter @mlrethlefsen @NaudetFlorian @inge_stegeman @leeflang_m @gowrigopala is part of Day 3’s 'Open Science, Protocol Availability, Registration’ session Register at peerreviewcongress.org! @bmj_latest

"Questionable Research Practices s are ways of producing, maintaining, sharing, analyzing, or interpreting data that are likely to produce misleading conclusions, typically in the interest of the researcher." bit.ly/3GxIqC1 @WCRIFoundation

"...when there are only two studies – the original and the replication – it’s hard to know what to do when they disagree." @WCRIFoundation @peerrevcongress theconversation.com/research-repli…

Meet the Faculty of #COGI2025, The 33rd COGI will take place at the Ergife Palace Hotel in Rome, Italy, from Nov 27–29, 2025. We’re excited & honored to welcome @LexBouter ! For more: cogi-congress.org/faculty/ Lex Bouter will speak in the session INTEGRITY IN SCIENCE, LAW…

Here are some enlightening figures. Substantial food for thought on the issues the scholarly publication system is facing. bit.ly/46FcA0w @peerrevcongress @WCRIFoundation @RetractionWatch

Two more days to register at reduced rates!

The PRC program is now online! Using #GPT to Identify Changes in RCT Outcomes Registered on ClinicalTrials.gov from @iSchoolUI @nutsci is part of Day 3’s 'Use of #AI to Assess Quality & Reporting’ session Register at peerreviewcongress.org! @METRICStanford @bmj_latest

The PRC program is now online! Sustainable Approaches to Upholding High Integrity Standards in the Face of Large-Scale Threats: Insights from @PLOSONE from @emilychenette closes Day 1’s '#ResearchMisconduct & #ResearchIntegrity session Register at peerreviewcongress.org!

💰 Authorship for sale. 🧐 A Nature investigation exposes how paper mills sell fake authorship slots—and corrupt the scientific record. 🧪 Science is being hijacked for a price. 🔗 nature.com/articles/d4158… #AcademicIntegrity #PaperMills #ScienceFraud

📢 NEW GUIDELINE: Guest edited collections Journals and publishers: *must carefully vet guest editors and watch for unethical practices *remain responsible for guest collections. The usual ethics and principles of the journal apply. ow.ly/jTeX50WlPUO #ResearchIntegrity

The PRC program is now online! How a Questionable Research Network Manipulated Scholarly Publishing from @fauxsci @HeleneDraux @cynhudson digitalsci @mselibrary is part of Day 2’s 'Authorship and Integrity Issues’ session Register now at peerreviewcongress.org @bmj_latest

The PRC program is now online! Assessment of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Concerns by @JAMANetwork Peer Reviewers from @DrMichaelMensah @PreetiNMalani is part of Day 1’s ‘Research Environment’ session Register at peerreviewcongress.org! @bmj_latest #DEI #peerreview

The PRC program is now online! Misidentification of SEM Instruments in the Materials Sci & Engineering Literature from @amaral @AmaralLab @NorthwesternEng is part of Day 1’s #SciIntegrity session Register at peerreviewcongress.org! @bmj_latest @METRICStanford @JAMA_current

The PRC program is now online! Understanding How an LLM Assesses the Quality of RCTs Using SHapley Additive exPlanations from @HEI_mcmaster @machealthsci @bhaynes31 is part of Day 3’s "Use of AI to Assess Quality & Reporting’ session Register now at peerreviewcongress.org!

The PRC program is now online! Monetary Incentives for #PeerReview at a Medical Journal: A Quasi-Randomized Experimental Study from @ProfChrisCotton @CritCareMed is part of the Peer Review session Register at peerreviewcongress.org! @bmj_latest @METRICStanford @JAMANetwork

The PRC Program is now online! Leveraging #LLMs for Detecting Citation Errors in Med Literature from @janinasarol @INFOatIllinois @UofIllinois is part of Day 3’s ‘#AI for Detecting Problems & in #PeerReview’ session Register at peerreviewcongress.org! cc: @janadiesner