Protection of the human gene research literature from contract cheating organizations known as research paper mills

JA Byrne, Y Park, RAK Richardson… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Human gene research generates new biology insights with translational potential, yet few
studies have considered the health of the human gene literature. The accessibility of human …

Integrity of randomized clinical trials: performance of integrity tests and checklists requires assessment

KS Khan, M Fawzy, PFW Chien - International Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The integrity of randomized clinical trials (RCT) has become a concern owing to a recent rise
in the number of retractions and the repercussions this has for evidence‐based patient care …

Knowledge distillation in automated annotation: Supervised text classification with llm-generated training labels

N Pangakis, S Wolken - ar** humans in the loop: Human-centered automated annotation with generative ai
N Pangakis, S Wolken - arxiv preprint arxiv:2409.09467, 2024 - arxiv.org
Automated text annotation is a compelling use case for generative large language models
(LLMs) in social media research. Recent work suggests that LLMs can achieve strong …

Promotional language and the adoption of innovative ideas in science

H Peng, HS Qiu, HB Fosse… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
How are the merits of innovative ideas communicated in science? Here, we conduct
semantic analyses of grant application success with a focus on scientific promotional …

How do tweeters feel about scientific misinformation: an infoveillance sentiment analysis of tweets on retraction notices and retracted papers

M Amiri, M Yaghtin, H Sotudeh - Scientometrics, 2024 - Springer
The traditional retraction mechanism's failure to eradicate the retracted papers' continued
effects urges for more control and monitoring systems to warn against low-quality and flawed …

Why research retraction due to misconduct should be stigmatized

G Hu, SB Xu - Publications, 2023 - mdpi.com
Many of us may remember Hester Prynne, the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The
Scarlet Letter, who was stigmatized for conceiving a daughter out of wedlock. The author's …

Citations of microRNA Biomarker Articles That Were Retracted: A Systematic Review

H Zhu, Y Jia, S Leung - JAMA Network Open, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Retraction is a tool that journals can use to deter research misconduct and alert
their audience to erroneous content published in the journals. However, retracted articles …

Effects of scanning health news headlines on trust in science: an emotional framing perspective

RL Nabi, CM Dobmeier, CL Robbins… - Health …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Rooted in the emotions-as-frames model (EFM), this research examines how hope, fear, and
annoyance are evoked through health news headline scanning, and how these emotions …

“They Only Silence the Truth”: COVID-19 retractions and the politicization of science

R Abhari, EÁ Horvát - Public Understanding of Science, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Retracted COVID-19 articles have circulated widely on social media. Although retractions
are intended to correct the scientific record, when trust in science is low, they may instead be …