The Peer-to-Processor Review

Research integrity demands stronger safeguards, but for editors, new integrity measures do not replace existing tasks — they are added alongside them, compounding workloads and responsibilities.

Times Higher Education reportedly killed an investigation into plagiarism allegations against Cambridge sociology professor Jason Arday after he hired a law firm.

This Retraction Watch weekly roundup touches on several research integrity threads relevant to the broader scholarly publishing beat — including the Hijacked Journal Checker surpassing 450 entries (a tool with clear AI/automation implications for detecting fraudulent journals) and the ADA editori...

Retraction Watch reveals a WhatsApp-based research network of nearly 1,000 members orchestrated by a second-year medical student in Nepal, mass-producing systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and conference abstracts with authorship as a commodity.

A publisher is investigating a peer reviewer who allegedly solicited payment from an author in exchange for manuscript assistance — a form of peer review corruption that sits at the intersection of research integrity and the broader crisis in scholarly publishing's credibility.

Retraction Watch's weekend roundup highlights a notable finding: private information appears in 'most' arXiv preprints, raising significant questions about AI training data, privacy, and preprint governance.

A Cochrane journal invited submission of a paper describing an AI literature review tool, then retracted it after identifying that the article's author was also the CEO of the company making the tool — a conflict of interest the journal acknowledged it should have caught.

A mass retraction action by Sage against a prominent researcher-turned-editor who manipulated peer review at a journal he edited.

A highly notable finding buried in Retraction Watch's weekend reads: hidden prompts (prompt injection attacks) embedded in conference paper submissions were shown to 'snare' AI peer review tools into generating favorable or manipulated reviews.

Sage retracts eight papers by a former Radboud University rising star for a compromised peer-review process

A Science journal retracted a paper for image duplication after Retraction Watch coverage

A student (Zhihao Lei) falsely claimed a Ph.D.