Location
School of Law Seminar Room 3.09
Start Date
5-6-2026 9:30 AM
End Date
5-6-2026 10:00 AM
Description
The STM Integrity Hub, launched at the end of 2021, offers powerful services and tools for publishers to help detect research integrity concerns in manuscripts submitted for publication, including indications that the manuscript may have been produced by a paper mill. With those services, publishers are better equipped to effectively respond to the worrying and increasing volume of materials submitted for publication that violate accepted academic norms of research integrity. Four years after its launch, the Hub screens 125,000 manuscripts per month from 40 publishers, powering effective workflows through integrations with 7 submissions systems.
The Hub demonstrates the power of working together. It has been developed in close collaboration between publishers, infrastructure providers, 3rd-party tool and database providers and integrity specialists (including sleuths) - while, of course, fully respecting data privacy and competition laws.
Notwithstanding the importance of services like the Hub to screen manuscripts at the point of submission, further collaboration across stakeholders is required to safeguard Research Integrity now and in the future. In particular, the emergence of generative AI calls for the exploration of new technologies, partnerships and workflows around data authenticity and researcher identity. STM has initiated several pilots in this area. In this talk, an overview of current and future collaborations is provided, with the aim to inspire a broad set of stakeholders to further contribute to a resilient, flexible, and trustworthy research ecosystem.
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STM Integrity Hub: infrastructural change through new collaborations
School of Law Seminar Room 3.09
The STM Integrity Hub, launched at the end of 2021, offers powerful services and tools for publishers to help detect research integrity concerns in manuscripts submitted for publication, including indications that the manuscript may have been produced by a paper mill. With those services, publishers are better equipped to effectively respond to the worrying and increasing volume of materials submitted for publication that violate accepted academic norms of research integrity. Four years after its launch, the Hub screens 125,000 manuscripts per month from 40 publishers, powering effective workflows through integrations with 7 submissions systems.
The Hub demonstrates the power of working together. It has been developed in close collaboration between publishers, infrastructure providers, 3rd-party tool and database providers and integrity specialists (including sleuths) - while, of course, fully respecting data privacy and competition laws.
Notwithstanding the importance of services like the Hub to screen manuscripts at the point of submission, further collaboration across stakeholders is required to safeguard Research Integrity now and in the future. In particular, the emergence of generative AI calls for the exploration of new technologies, partnerships and workflows around data authenticity and researcher identity. STM has initiated several pilots in this area. In this talk, an overview of current and future collaborations is provided, with the aim to inspire a broad set of stakeholders to further contribute to a resilient, flexible, and trustworthy research ecosystem.