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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Please register for our next hybrid symposium:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">How paper mills publish fake science industrial-style ― is there really a problem and how does it work?</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Time:
<b>20. June 2022, 16.00-18:00</b> (4 x 15min presentations + 1h panel discussion)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Location:
<b>Luisenstr. 37, Munich & Zoom</b></span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="https://lmu-munich.zoom.us/webinar/register/1616521010589/WN_5dfoqO6eRAmCQMyw7OOhSw"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt">Registration</span></b></a><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span></b><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Organisers: Bernhard A. Sabel (U Magdeburg) and Felix Schönbrodt (LMU Munich)</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Sponsors: LMU Open Science Center of the LMU Munich and Deutscher Hochschulverband</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Our trust in the integrity of academic publishing is the very foundation of the advancement of the sciences and medicine. There are many ways scientific misconduct and
questionable research practices undermine trust in science, including number nudging, cherry-picking, abstract spin, plagiarism, or pure data fabrication. During the last decade, however, we witnessed an unprecedented and concerning kind of misconduct: Industry-style,
semi-automatic production of fake scientific publications by so-called “paper mills”, professional agencies that fake scientific data, figures, tables, and manuscripts including most recently artificial intelligence. While the number of publications with fake
science is generally considered to be small, their number has scaled up and reaches concerning levels in some fields (medicine est. 200,000 annually), supporting a billion EURO paper mill business model. It should be considered a systematic criminal attack
on the permanent scientific record (Sabel & Seifert 2021). The symposium sheds light on this new phenomenon and provides a discussion forum for the perspectives of researchers, editors, and publishers.</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">1.
<b>“Fake science publications by paper-mills: pollution of the permanent scientific record”</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Bernhard Sabel </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">(Director, Inst. of Medical Psychology, Univ. Magdeburg)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">2.<b> "Radical steps to improve the quality of the preclinical research literature" </b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> <b>Jennifer Byrne</b> (Director of Biobanking,
<i>NSW Health</i> Pathology, Univ. Sydney)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">3.
<b>“Scientific fraud: whose problem is it?"</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dorothy Bishop</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> (Prof. of Developmental Neuropsychology, Univ. Oxford)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">4.
<b>“The publishers´ perspective of fraud & fake in scientific publishing” </b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Chris Graf </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">(Research Integrity Director, Springer/Nature, London)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#232333;background:white;font-weight:normal">Please contact Prof. Bernhard Sabel at
</span><a href="mailto:SIA@med.ovgu.de"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC;background:white;font-weight:normal">SIA@med.ovgu.de</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#232333;background:white;font-weight:normal"> with any scientific inquiries
and Dr Malika Ihle at </span><a href="mailto:malika.ihle@lmu.de"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC;background:white;font-weight:normal">malika.ihle@lmu.de</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#232333;background:white;font-weight:normal">
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