Who Cares About Publication Integrity?, 2022, Grey, Avenell & Bolland

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Who Cares About Publication Integrity?

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Andrew Grey, Alison Avenell, and Mark Bolland. Andrew is a clinical endocrinologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Auckland. Alison is a medically trained clinical biochemist and a Professor at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Mark is a clinical endocrinologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Auckland.

"No one questions the critical importance of a reliable biomedical literature. Universities teach research integrity, publishers espouse it fulsomely, government agencies debate and endorse it. There are definitions, recommendations, and guidelines. Yet the cases described above are but a few of the many examples of the slow, opaque, inconsistent, frustrating, and unsatisfactory outcomes of tumbling into the rabbit hole of publication integrity. Watching paint dry is ultimately more fulfilling: at least the paint will be dry eventually. Why is achieving and maintaining publication integrity so fraught? Could it be that the main protagonists don’t actually care?"

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