Lex Bouter

There is no magic bullet I'm afraid. We need stakehoders to collaborate. See: research.vu.nl/files/425517...
for a recent initiative.

The peer-review crisis: how to fix an overloaded system Journals and funders are trying to boost the speed and effectiveness of review processes that are under strain.

Should we be doing less peer review?

As research output grows, many question how much peer review the system can sustain.

RoRI's @ludowaltman.bsky.social: “We need to ask ourselves whether there really is a need for all research outputs to be peer reviewed.”

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nature’s decision to publish positive peer review reports only gives half the picture - Impact of Social Sciences As the journal Nature moves to publish peer review reports for accepted papers, Bodo Stern argues this partial openness falls short of true transparency.

💥 New: Nature’s decision to publish positive peer review reports only gives half the picture

✍️ @bodorama.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PeerReview #ScholComm

The peer-review crisis: how to fix an overloaded system Journals and funders are trying to boost the speed and effectiveness of review processes that are under strain.

Excellent news piece in @nature.com providing an overview of ongoing discussions about the organization of peer review in funding allocation and scientific publishing doi.org/10.1038/d415....

@rorinstitute.bsky.social @cwts.nl

International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication Enhancing the quality and credibility of science.

Attitudes & Perceptions of Use of #AI #Chatbots in Medical Journal #PeerReview: An International X-Sectional Survey

from @lexbouter.bsky.social and @ottawahospital.on.ca colleagues

is a poster presentation all 3 PRC days

Register to stop by, ask questions, say hello!

peerreviewcongress.org!

International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication Enhancing the quality and credibility of science.

Attitudes and Perceptions of Biomedical Journal EICs Toward Use of #AI #Chatbots in #ScholarlyPublishing

from @lexbouter.bsky.social & ‪@ottawahospital.on.ca‬ colleagues

is a poster presentation all 3 PRC days

Register to stop by, ask questions, say hello!

peerreviewcongress.org

@bmj.com

"who controls the scientific literature? ... power and control over vital issues – what is peer review, what is a journal, what gets published – have been ceded to organizations beyond the scientific community, like Web of Science and Scopus. This is not healthy for science or scientific community."

Have a look here: bit.ly/477JbMK, where the Lancet-
World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation Committee on Research Integrity is announced! This Commission will take a multifactor and multistakeholder approach to work towards solutions that promote the quality and credibility of research.

“6% of sleuths agreed that current reporting channels for misconduct are effective, compared to 77% of research-integrity officers”

I think this is readily explainable by the differential access to information. RIOs do not see what doesn’t even reach them, eg when editors refuse to act.

How to tackle research misconduct: survey finds stark disagreement Data sleuths and research-integrity officers have different views on how to handle allegations of wrongdoing in science.

Nature News has a short piece on the survey we did in conjunction with the FAIRS meeting on responding to serious research misconduct www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The research assessment ecosystem hinders innovative publication models that address our biggest problems in research | DORA The innovative F1000Research open research publishing model was launched in 2012 and was born out of a desire to start again, thinking about the technology and tools at the time and redesigning how we...

"The research assessment ecosystem hinders innovative publication models that address our biggest problems in research." 💬 Guest blog post by @rnls.bsky.social, Director of @f1000publishing.bsky.social & DORA Vice-Chair, on #ResearchAssessment and #ScholarlyCommunication 👉 sfdora.org/2025/07/23/a...

Research with Integrity – Destigmatising the correction of scientific mistakes - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News Dr Catherine Winchester talks destigmatising the correction of mistakes in scientific papers, and open research cultures where it’s normal to do so...

"Research with Integrity – Destigmatising the correction of scientific mistakes"

#ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI

news.cancerresearchuk.org/2025/07/23/r...

We were very happy to learn that our partnership with Dialogic innovatie & interactie has been selected for the Open Science Monitoring and Evaluation project!

👇

Open science is one of our key areas of expertise at @cwts.nl. Very glad that we can use our expertise in this area to develop an open science monitoring framework for the Netherlands!

We will work on this together with colleagues at Dialogic.

@wcrifoundation.bsky.social @nrin-integrity.bsky.social @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com

"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

Wellcome announces suite of open research measures | News | Wellcome John-Arne Røttingen, Wellcome’s chief executive, made a series of announcements regarding the global health research foundation's open research methods

A bold step for open research 🟨🟪👣

Wellcome has joined the Barcelona Declaration. A big move from one of the world’s leading research funders. With persistent identifiers and open metadata policies, they’re helping shift how research is recognized and rewarded.

🔗 wellcome.org/news/wellcom...

Detecting fraud ‘is a job for professionals, not peer reviewers’ - Research Professional News Integrity investigator Elisabeth Bik urges publishers, journals and institutions to take responsibility

"Detecting fraud ‘is a job for professionals, not peer reviewers’"

@elisabethbik.bsky.social

#ResearchIntegrity

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...

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

Metascience can improve science — but it must be useful to society, too Researchers studying research must avoid the temptation to get too stuck in the academic weeds.

Science of science has been used to improve research integrity and assessment.
Last week I spoke at #metascience2025 calling on the community to look further, to improve interdisciplinarity, trust in science & more

Our editorial adds more 🧪

@jameswilsdon.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Grant for strengthening collaboration between Dutch university open access publishers | Open Science NL The Steering Board of Open Science NL has decided to award a €300,000 grant to the network of institutional open access publishers in the Netherlands, known as the Netherlands University Presses (NUPs...

Very happy to announce this major boost for the Netherlands University Presses #NUPs network.

The aim of this @opensciencenl.bsky.social funding is to strengthen collaboration and coordination, and promote inclusive (e.g. diamond) #openaccess models.

👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/gran...

Grant for strengthening collaboration between Dutch university open access publishers | Open Science NL The Steering Board of Open Science NL has decided to award a €300,000 grant to the network of institutional open access publishers in the Netherlands, known as the Netherlands University Presses (NUPs...

🎉 Netherlands University Presses (NUPs) receive €300,000 grant from @opensciencenl.bsky.social to strengthen diamond open access publishing! 💎 Building a sustainable, academic-led alternative free for both readers AND authors. #OpenAccess #DiamondOA #OpenScience

www.openscience.nl/en/news/gran... 👆🏾

Zo vlak voor de zomer een vrij gevulde @opensciencenl.bsky.social nieuwsbrief, al zeg ik het zelf ;-)

mailing.nwo.nl/x/?S7Y1.p9ra...

Five citizen science hubs receive funding | Open Science NL Open Science NL has awarded five grants of €400,000 each to expand citizen science hubs at research organisations. These grants will help foster knowledge exchange and strengthen expertise and support...

Five new citizen science hubs across the Netherlands receive funding from Open Science NL. Each hub has a thematic focus and strengthens collaboration between science and society.
👉towards open, inclusive and impactful science:
openscience.nl/en/news/five-citizen-science-hubs-receive-funding

International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication Enhancing the quality and credibility of science.

The PRC program is now online!

Authors Self-disclosed Use of #AI in Research: Submissions to 49 BMJ Group Biomedical Journals

from @lexbouter.bsky.social‬ @maastrichtu.bsky.social‬

is first up.

Learn more and register to attend at peerreviewcongress.org

@bmj.com @jama.com

"Røttingen was speaking to RPN at #Metascience2025 conference ..., at which @wellcometrust.bsky.social announced it had signed @barcelonadori.bsky.social.

The declaration sees funders and universities pledge to use open research data ... and share information on research funding and grants."

Vallance: ‘We must protect and grow basic research funding’ - Research Professional News Metascience 2025: Science minister warns against seeing curiosity-driven research as “easiest thing to cut”

🧵What a fantastic event #Metascience2025 was! A remarkable three days, with more than 800 delegates from 65 countries.

On day 1, science minister Patrick Vallance warned against seeing curiosity-driven research as the “easiest thing to cut”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Budget cuts put research integrity under stress As respected institutions continue to face cuts to their funding, there is a question mark over both the volume and quality of research that can be conducted.

“Budget cuts put #ResearchIntegrity under stress”

www.labonline.com.au/content/lab-...

Authorship for sale: Nature investigates how paper mills work Companies selling authorship slots thrive in a culture that equates success with a strong publication record. Customers, sleuths and the shadowy owner of a paper mill explain why.

Authorship for sale: Nature investigates how paper mills work: Companies selling authorship slots thrive in a culture that equates success with a strong publication record. Customers, sleuths and the shadowy owner of a paper mill explain why. buff.ly/Erqo72R

The U.S. government is failing on vaccine policy. The Vaccine Integrity Project is here to help The Vaccine Integrity Project will convene experts to assess the evidence on influenza, RSV, and Covid-19 to equip clinicians with reliable, evidence-based information.

“The U.S. government is failing on vaccine policy. The Vaccine Integrity Project is here to help”

#ResarchIntegrity

www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/v...