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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · 2d

👉Mapping Institutional Approaches to Research Assessment Reform: Insights from the CoARA Spanish National Chapter

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#researchintegrity

Mapping Institutional Approaches to Research Assessment Reform: Insights from the CoARA Spanish National Chapter

This report presents the outcomes of Phase 1 of the Spanish National Chapter of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA), coordinated by ANECA, CRUE, CSIC, and ISCIII. It maps emerging ...

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · 12d

Summary of a Discussion Panel on #researchintegrity with Lonni Besançon bsky.app/profile/lonn..., Eunsang Lee & Yukari Ito
at the 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum👇

scilogs.spektrum.de/hlf/differen...

Different Perspectives on Scientific Misconduct

For me, the most interesting takeaway from the panel discussion on scientific integrity at the 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum was that scientific misconduct means rather different things from differen...

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · 12d

....I agree 🙁 nevertheless, the discussion is relevant, and they reach many in the community

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · 12d

👉 The Future of Universities 👇
#researchintegrity

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · 22d

👉 3h Student course on #researchintegrity for the PhD students of the EU DN 'Eiffel' project eiffeldn.bsky.social in Mons, organized by David Beljonne.
‬Thanks again, David, for the kind invitation, and to all the students for your interest & thoughtful discussion!
#HorizonEurope

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · 24d

👉 @ Yoann Olivier's group in Namur. Thank you again, Yoann, for the kind invitation to talk about 'Emission Color Pureness and Efficiency Regulation in Organic Chromophores' and the great time!

Yoann Olivier's research team

www.unamur.be

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · 26d

Incredible, that after already 16 retractions across various publishers and > 90 papers flagged @ pubpeer.com/search?q=Yas..., it's still the fault of all the others; read here this lengthy "defense" in 3rd-person style:

retractionwatch.com/2025/09/05/y...

#researchintegrity

Iraqi university dean linked to paper mills has more than a dozen retractions

Yasser Fakri Mustafa A professor of pharmaceutical chemistry in Iraq has been steadily racking up retractions since 2022, with reasons ranging from authorship manipulation to irrelevant citations, …

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · Sep 7

Leonardo Martins Carneiro scholar.google.com/citations?us... has joined the group for a 9-months PhD Internship from Univ. Federal de ABC, Brazil (supervisors Paula Homem de Mello & Fernando Bartoloni). Welcome, Leo!

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · Aug 29

2nd Sino-German Workshop on Advanced Nanoimaging and Nanofabrication & Special Session on Alfred Meixner's retirement, in Tübingen:
Thanks again, Dai Zhang & Team for the great event, and for the kind invitation!

Thank you Fredy, for the joint 15y journey & all the best for your active retirement!

Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · Aug 27

beyond "Tortured Phrases"😮‍:
👉"A comprehensive assessment of the types and additives in UV–Vis spectrophotometry was made possible by BANKRUPTCY. This INSOLVENCY is clarified in this chapter..." of a WILEY textbook 😢
pubpeer.com/publications...

#ChemSky, #PiSky, #CompChemSky #researchintegrity

PubPeer - UV–Visible Spectroscopy for Quantitative Analysis of Biomole...

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: UV–Visible Spectroscopy for Quantitative Analysis of Biomolecules (2028)

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · Aug 26

Interested in Modelling of Co-Pigmentation in Membranes? 👉Check out our new paper lead by Patrick Trouillas:
doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

#CompChemSky

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · Aug 25

I agree, probably "fascination peak is a "Tortured Phrase", but now look what Google's AI tells us about the use of this term👇 ...citing these junk science products as reference to claim that "fascination peak" is in fact a term in spectroscopy 😱

#ChemSky #PiSky #CompChemSky #researchintegrity

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · Aug 24

...yes, maybe AI hallucinations, welcomed by (i) authors, (ii) reviewers & (iii) editors who don't care, if they turn science into junk, as long as it helps to increase their (i) no. of paper, (ii) citations & (iii) profit margins

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · Aug 24

👉"fascination peak" of the "crucial state" in UV/Vis absorption spectra
has been flagged at pubpeer.com/publications...

#ChemSky, #PiSky, #CompChemSky

no serious peer review & editing at "Chemical Papers" (Springer Nature)
...zero interest in #researchintegrity

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · Aug 19

...👉 retracted in "Carbohydrate Polymers" being now the "Top 1 Journal in Organic Chemistry" counted by IF, see www.chemistryworld.com/news/what-ar...

...self-evidently Top 1 by massive support of citation cartels & brokers.
Here we are in #researchintegrity

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · Aug 19

...Webster, decoy speaker of every predatory conference out there 👇, and every-year self-nominate for the Nobel prize...

catalysis-conferences.magnusgroup.org/speaker/thom...

Thomas J Webster | Catalysis Conferences 2025 | Chemical Engineering Conferences 2025 | Chemistry Conferences 2025

Chemical Engineering Conferences 2025 is a networking event covering all topics in catalysis, chemistry, chemical engineering and technology during September 11-13, 2025 as Online Event. Catalysis Con...

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · Aug 18

...a further absurdity of that "IF list" 👇 at www.chemistryworld.com/news/what-ar...

For Clarivate et al, Physical Chemistry is evidently just a sub-field of Materials Science 😮‍
Also this happens if private companies define "Impact"...

#ChemSky #CompChemSky #researchintegrity

What are the top journals in chemistry right now?

Following the recent release of journal impact factors, we round up the leading journals across 10 chemistry fields

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · Aug 18

👉Journal Impact Nonsense:
Here's the result of years of systematic JIF gaming by Publishers, Editors & Authors (...and Paper Mills & Citation Cartels) in #Chemsky, #CompChemSky
...proudly presented by www.chemistryworld.com/news/what-ar...

advocating for Quality vs. Quantity = #researchintegrity

Journal Impact Nonsense

www.science.org

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · Aug 13

for us: to ignore = pre-2020
with now > 1 Mio papers/y in Mater+Phys+Chem, you can find junk (at varying degree) everywhere, not only in 'junk journals'

My daily work = separating quality from junk:
- papers to review, read, cite
- people to hire
- project & thesis review
- conferences to attend

Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · Aug 13

Most fraud = "Just" metric gaming, which "doesn’t get read, cited or used"? ...maybe in your field

Mater. Science is overwhelmed w. highly cited Junk!
GenAI already names 'Top Gamers' as 'Top Scientists'.

If we don't act, self-referencing AI will define junk as state-of-the-art
#researchintegrity

Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · Aug 6

I think this quote is both unsustainable and unsupported by the analysis in the piece. First and foremost, it portrays fraud as *consuming* science rather than merely growing alongside it. Much of the “fraud” in the paper is just metric gaming whackamole that doesn’t get read, cited or used.

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Aug 4

“If these trends are not stopped, science is going to be destroyed." Here's my story on the accelerating growth of systemic research fraud--aka paper mills. Gift link: nyti.ms/45rDirw

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · Aug 7

Calculated UV/Vis absorption spectra of organic dyes with 👉 Negative Oscillator Strength 🤨

...published in J. Phys. Chem. C 😢
doi.org/10.1021/acs....

#researchintegrity #ChemSky #PiSky #CompChemSky

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · Aug 6

Next masterpiece 👇 Negative Wavelength Fluorescence! 🤨
doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...

Elsevier: @elsevierps.bsky.social‬ = no retraction, as usual, right?

#researchintegrity #ChemSky #PiSky #CompChemSky #physics

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · Aug 5

In-depth study 👇 on 'Publishing Fraud' through 'Author-Editor Networks', by Richardson et al: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

...I advocate for 👉 consequent Black-Listing of fraudulent Authors, Editors & Journals, and 👉 enforced Public & Social Pressure

#researchintegrity = Quality over Quantity

Fighting coordinated publication fraud is like ‘emptying an overflowing bathtub with a spoon,’ study coauthor says

The observed and forecasted growth rate of paper mill papers outpaces corrective measures, a new study finds. R. Richardson et al./PNAS 2025 Systematic research fraud has outpaced corrective measur…

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · Aug 5

Más sobre Integridad Cientifica en la prensa española 👇
gracias, Natalia Chientaroli bsky.app/profile/did:... @
bsky.app/profile/eldi...

#researchintegrity

La publicación de ‘papers’ fraudulentos en revistas científicas crece sin control: “Hay millones de dólares en juego”

El mayor estudio que se ha hecho hasta la fecha apunta a una amplia red clandestina que se dedica a la producción de manuscritos de baja calidad, con datos falsificados, imágenes manipuladas, contenid...

www.eldiario.es

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · Aug 4

They neither cited your post 😯😅
...nor this Cederbaum paper:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Storing and releasing Mg by C12 carbon ring

Carbon allotropes accommodating guest atoms, like endohedral fullerenes, have been widely discussed in the literature owing to their potential applica…

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