Creating, using, misusing, and detecting deep fakes

H Farid - Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 2022‏ - tsjournal.org
Synthetic media—so-called deep fakes—have captured the imagination of some and struck
fear in others. Although they vary in their form and creation, deep fakes refer to text, image …

Methods to assess research misconduct in health-related research: A sco** review

EM Bordewijk, W Li, R van Eekelen, R Wang… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Objective To give an overview of the available methods to investigate research misconduct
in health-related research. Study Design and Setting In this sco** review, we conducted a …

Digital magic, or the dark arts of the 21st century—how can journals and peer reviewers detect manuscripts and publications from paper mills?

JA Byrne, J Christopher - FEBS letters, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, it has been proposed that unrealistic requirements for academics and
medical doctors to publish in scientific journals, combined with monetary publication …

Deepfakes: A new threat to image fabrication in scientific publications?

L Wang, L Zhou, W Yang, R Yu - Patterns, 2022‏ - cell.com
There is an increasing risk of people using advanced artificial intelligence, particularly the
generative adversarial network (GAN), for scientific image manipulation for the purpose of …

Reproducible image handling and analysis

K Miura, SF Nørrelykke - The EMBO journal, 2021‏ - embopress.org
Image data are universal in life sciences research. Their proper handling is not. A significant
proportion of image data in research papers show signs of mishandling that undermine their …

Reasons for and time to retraction of genetics articles published between 1970 and 2018

R Dal-Ré, C Ayuso - Journal of medical genetics, 2019‏ - jmg.bmj.com
Introduction Between 0.02% and 0.04% of articles are retracted. We aim to:(a) describe the
reasons for retraction of genetics articles and the time elapsed between the publication of an …

The possibility of systematic research fraud targeting under-studied human genes: causes, consequences, and potential solutions

JA Byrne, N Grima, A Capes-Davis… - Biomarker …, 2019‏ - journals.sagepub.com
A major reason for biomarker failure is the selection of candidate biomarkers based on
inaccurate or incorrect published results. Incorrect research results leading to the selection …

Connectome-based machine learning models are vulnerable to subtle data manipulations

M Rosenblatt, RX Rodriguez, ML Westwater, W Dai… - Patterns, 2023‏ - cell.com
Neuroimaging-based predictive models continue to improve in performance, yet a widely
overlooked aspect of these models is" trustworthiness," or robustness to data manipulations …

A tale of two academic communities: digital imaginaries of automatic screening tools in editorial practice

F Hesselmann - Minerva, 2023‏ - Springer
Automatic screening tools such as plagiarism scanners play an increasing role in journals'
efforts to detect and prevent violations of research integrity. More than just neutral …

SILA: a system for scientific image analysis

D Moreira, JP Cardenuto, R Shao, S Baireddy… - Scientific Reports, 2022‏ - nature.com
A great deal of the images found in scientific publications are retouched, reused, or
composed to enhance the quality of the presentation. In most instances, these edits are …