Correcting the scientific record – A broken system?

The current system for assessing and publicly notifying concerns about publication integrity is slow, inefficient, inconsistent, inadequate and opaque. Readers are therefore left unaware of potential issues about publications or are given inadequate information to assess publication integrity. We propose a new process for dealing with publication integrity involving the establishment of independent panel(s) that assess publication integrity and transparently report the outcomes of those assessments, independent from assessment of any misconduct.

[1]  A. Grey,et al.  Different outcomes of meta-analyses and data inconsistency: response to comments by Pfeifer , 2015, Archives of Osteoporosis.

[2]  A. Avenell,et al.  Quality of reports of investigations of research integrity by academic institutions , 2019, Research Integrity and Peer Review.

[3]  A. Grey,et al.  Inconsistent data in text and tables , 2015, Osteoporosis International.

[4]  David B. Allison,et al.  Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors , 2016, Nature.

[5]  P. Friedman,et al.  Correcting the literature following fraudulent publication. , 1990, JAMA.

[6]  M. Nylenna,et al.  Scientific misconduct: a new approach to prevention , 2006, The Lancet.

[7]  Tsuyoshi Miyakawa,et al.  No raw data, no science: another possible source of the reproducibility crisis , 2020, Molecular Brain.

[8]  Alison Avenell,et al.  Assessing and Raising Concerns About Duplicate Publication, Authorship Transgressions and Data Errors in a Body of Preclinical Research , 2019, Science and Engineering Ethics.

[9]  R. Recker,et al.  Vitamin D and calcium supplementation reduces cancer risk: results of a randomized trial. , 2007, The American journal of clinical nutrition.

[10]  Alison Avenell,et al.  Check for publication integrity before misconduct , 2020, Nature.

[11]  R. Gross.  Statistics and the detection of scientific misconduct , 2016, Neurology.

[12]  A. Avenell,et al.  Effects of vitamin D supplementation on musculoskeletal health: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and trial sequential analysis. , 2018, The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology.

[13]  A. Avenell,et al.  Systematic review and statistical analysis of the integrity of 33 randomized controlled trials , 2016, Neurology.

[14]  C. Wiedermann.  Inaction over retractions of identified fraudulent publications: ongoing weakness in the system of scientific self-correction , 2018, Accountability in research.

[15]  H. Minne,et al.  Effects of a long-term vitamin D and calcium supplementation on falls and parameters of muscle function in community-dwelling older individuals , 2009, Osteoporosis International.

[16]  B. Goldacre,et al.  COMPare: a prospective cohort study correcting and monitoring 58 misreported trials in real time , 2019, Trials.

[17]  Jatinder Singh,et al.  Committee on publication ethics , 2010, Journal of pharmacology & pharmacotherapeutics.