Johannes Gierschner

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.

👉Five Ways to Spot when a Paper is Fraud
...sleuths tips at @nature.com #researchintegrity

Stop wasting my time! AI Agents Infiltrate Scholarly Publishing As Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for Educational Integrity, I rant a bit about the rise of AI-generated manuscripts in academic publishing. While acknowledging potential benefits of …

Stop wasting my time! AI Agents Infiltrate Scholarly Publishing

#ScholarlyPublishing #GenAI #AI #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI

@saraheaton.bsky.social

drsaraheaton.com/2026/02/06/s...

👇Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities has organized a Round Table on
"Artificial Intelligence and the Fraud Industry in Scientific Publishing" #ResearchIntegrity

watch at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w0E...

16th Edition of the European Symposium on Computing pi-Conjugated Compounds (CPiC), organized by Silvio Osella, CeNT, Univ. of Warsaw cpic16.cent.uw.edu.pl
#CompChemSky

Thanks again, Silvio, for the great organization!

Speaking about #ResearchIntegrity at CeNT, Univ. Warsaw. Thanks again, Silvio Osella, for the kind invitation, and all participants for our discussion!

cent.uw.edu.pl/cent-seminar...

Seminar on #ResearchIntegrity, Faculty of Chemistry, Univ. Torun www.chem.umk.pl/wiadomosci/?...

Thanks again, Anna Kaczmarek-Kędziera & Marta Ziegler-Borowska, for the kind invitation, and the audience on-site & online for the intense & thoughtful discussion.

It was great to talk about #ResearchIntegrity at the
Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry
@vwscc.bsky.social #CompChemSky

Thanks again to VWSCC - in particular Sandra Gomez @quimicafisica1.bsky.social - for the kind invitation, and the audience for the thoughtful discussion!

Miles de científicos hinchan su currículum con estudios autopublicados que cuestan millones de euros de dinero público Un análisis de 100.000 números especiales de revistas académicas revela que uno de cada ocho está lleno de artículos de autobombo del propio editor, sobre todo en la editorial MDPI

👉Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of euros of public money

👇by @manuelansede.bsky.social in @elpais.com

coverage of "The Issue with Special Issues: when Guest Editors Publish in Support of Self" doi.org/10.48550/arX...

#ResearchIntegrity

In Memoriam: The Academic Journal

#ResearchIntegrity

...just seen on PubPeer👇

"Happy Electrons", "Nobbling Cations", "Artificial Atoms" & "Elation Bohr's Energy" ?
...this is not only "Revolutionizing Waste Water Cleaning" but Chemistry & Physics 😱 #ChemSky

👉Springer Nature @springernature.com what are you doing to #ResearchIntegrity ?

👉Science in (AI-assisted) buzzword times:
"Revolutionizing" appears 6450 times in Titles of Scientific Papers👇
...essentially all (5592 = 87%) since 2023

Modesty is part of #ResearchIntegrity

Dinero gastado, tiempo invertido y menos confianza en el sistema: cómo las cuatro grandes editoriales "drenan" la ciencia La deriva de las últimas décadas ha otorgado el control sobre la ciencia a los grandes grupos editoriales privados, sostiene un estudio que indica que Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley y Taylor & Franc...

👇on the extraordinary profit margins of scientific publishers, all on public costs, now also covered by El Diario (Spain) @eldiario.es

👉public pressure = essential element for #ResearchIntegrity

no, I wrote 3‰, which is 0.3% !
This is obtained by:
250,000 (flagged papers on PubPeer) ÷ 76,500,000 (total no. of papers) = 0.33%
...the total no. of papers, I extracted from Scopus

🎆Congratulations🎇 Sleuths at PubPeer - pubpeer.com :
End-of-the-Year Countdown runs for 250,000 flagged papers!!
...that's a 3‰ of total publications over all years & disciplines (ca. 76,000,000)

👉essential for #ResearchIntegrity

RI2 Research Integrity Risk Index - by Lokman I. Meho👇

The broad coverage in public media:
sites.aub.edu.lb/lmeho/ri2/me...

gave some hope in 2025 for #ResearchIntegrity

Retraction Watch Elsevier’s Journal of Molecular Liquids is one of four journals delisted from Clarivate’s Web of Science this month. https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-molecular-liquids...

J. Molecular Liquids delisted from WoS, reports @retractionwatch.com
..."well" deserved indeed, as it's a main target for paper mills & citation cartels... #ResearchIntegrity

👇"invited" by a Scam Conference on "Advanced Chemistry" featuring speakers from the "Military Fire Brigade of the Federal District, Brazil" ?? 😂 ...you really made my day #researchintegrity

👇Next "New Physics"? Theoretical Chemists identify a compound with a melting temp. of 5400 K ? #CompChemSky

...or again just a simple Numerical Error?!😮 - because no one cares what's written in "scientific" papers, only counting cites & money? #researchintegrity

pubpeer.com/publications...

A new preprint server welcomes papers written and reviewed by AI With human peer review struggling to keep pace with machine-generated science, aiXiv enlists bots to help

👇Preprint server for AI written & reviewed papers!?

...and then, AI will "read" & cite it's own stuff, in a paper avalanche, until AI's statistical intelligence will entirely ignore any critical comments by humans...

This is what we want?
a "AI self-referential universe"?
#ResearchIntegrity

Weekend Read:
👇Wedding Proposal in an Acknowledgement of a Scientific Paper??
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
No wonder the paper was cited 220 times - not only by the bride-to-be, but also other usual suspects... #ResearchIntegrity
But now, S. Zhu, I want to know: did you marry in the end, anyway? 💍

I'll talk about #ResearchIntegrity at the
Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry @vwscc.bsky.social #CompChemSky on Jan, 28th, 9:00 CET

Thanks again to the VWSCC Team for the kind invitation, in particular Sandra Gomez @quimicafisica1.bsky.social

How to juice your Google Scholar h-index, preprint by preprint A screenshot of Yousaf’s Google Scholar profile before it was removed. Muhammad Zain Yousaf, a postdoc at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, became a scholar of note overnight. Or so it …

How to juice your Google Scholar h-index...

...just an increase case of what thousands of researchers out there are doing day by day, eroding #researchintegrity

...also in #chemsky, #compchemsky #pisky

EcoEnergy Click on the title to browse this journal

This "scientific" journal goes on spamming me, although I told them that I'm not Prof. XY, whom they wanted to convince to publish in their "70% acceptance rate" journal...

Oh @wiley.com how low can you go? And you signed DORA?
...or you don't know what your journals are doing? #researchintegrity

La caída de una megarrevista científica expone el pelotazo de las editoriales en la ciencia Una de las cabeceras que más estudios publican en el mundo, expulsada del sistema por irregularidades. Su editorial, Elsevier, supera los 1.300 millones de euros de beneficios al año

👉On the Increasing Perversion of the Scientific Publishing System👇
Thank you, @manuelansede.bsky.social at @elpais.com, to put this into the limelight of public discussion in Spain & beyond!

#researchintegrity needs social pressure

Exclusive: ‘Highly problematic’ policy has Saudi university pressuring faculty to cite its research Prince Sultan University At Prince Sultan University in Saudi Arabia, faculty members must help raise their school’s academic standing not by doing impactful work, but by citing the institution’s r…

Manipulation of University Rankings = Destroys Confidence in Science
STOP Counting Numbers 🚫 #researchintegrity

[also concerns #chemsky #compchemsky #pisky]

Highly Cited Researchers Analysis 2025 | Clarivate In-depth analysis of the 2025 list of Highly Cited Researchers from Clarivate: trends, institution rankings and global research impact.

👉Clarivate excluded another 432 of 7000 researchers in the 2025 Highly Cited Researcher list👇
With the former exclusions (2021: 300, 2022: 500, 2023: 1000, 2024: 2000), a total of > 35% of all HCR researchers is now excluded, showing the extent of systematic Citation Gaming...
#researchintegrity

Talk on #researchintegrity at the Symposium on Lung Metastasis on the occasion of the Prof. award to Dr. Marcus Krüger in Halle, Germany.
Congratulations again for the achievement, Marcus, and thank you once more for the kind invitation.

2nd Internat. Symposium on Emerging Photovoltaic Materials, Tsinghua SIGS, organized by Safakath Karuthedath

Thank you, Safakath, for the kind invitation to the 2 seminars, i.e. on our research #chemsky #PiSky , and on #researchintegrity

A great week with tutorials & discussions!

🙂 With Zengqi Xie at SCUT: research talks, tuturial & discussions on #chemsky #pisky

...and seminar & course on #researchintegrity

Thanks again, Zengqi & group, for 3 packed, great days!

Dr. Indranil Bhattacharjee has left the group to join Distinkt www.distinkt.tech in Barcelona, as R&D chief scientist. All the best for your future, Indranil!