Open Science Lunch webinar: The dark side of academic publishing

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Join us for this Open Science Lunch to hear about the recent rise of fake research articles, paper mills, fabricated data - and what we can do to confront it.

About the topic

In this Open Science Lunch, our invited guests will present key challenges currently facing scientific publishing, including the widespread proliferation of fabricated articles and unethical peer review practices, as well as ways to uncover and confront them.

Per S. Refseth (Academic librarian) will provide a brief overview of the issue surrounding fake research articles in academic publishing. He will discuss allegations of research misconduct highlighted in PubPeer, and the insufficient response from research institutions.

Morten Oksvold (Independent researcher) will discuss how his team actively analyses and identifies problematic articles. He will cover several critical topics, including: data duplication and the fabrication of research articles, the rise of AI-generated data in publications, the prevalence of nonsensical phrases and obvious flaws, as well as the emergence of paper mills in the publishing landscape.

Grab your matpakke and join us for the presentations from our special guests and for an open Q&A session afterwards!

How to join

The event is open to everybody and you can join online on Zoom (Zoom link here). 

About Open Science Lunch

Each last Thursday of the month at 12.00 we invite you to join us an open lunch to hear about how to make your research more open. We will discuss research transparency and visibility, open publishing, data sharing, and more! After each short presentation we will have a Q&A session, where you can ask questions or try yourself some of the tools and solutions we will present!

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Organizer

The seminar series is a collaboration between BOTT Universities in Norway: University of Bergen, University of Oslo, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
When: 26.09.24 kl 12.00–13.00
Where: Zoom
Location / Campus: Digitalt
Target group: Ansatte, Studenter
Responsible: Aysa Ekanger
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