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Addressing Research Integrity with Identity Verification

Addressing Research Integrity with Identity Verification
Most scholarly publishers require little more than a working email address to allow users to submit manuscripts for peer review that can become part of the permanent scientific record. This implicit trust in researcher identities is being exploited in several ways, including authors recommending fake peer reviewers or claiming false co-authors, and researchers using fake identities to become guest editors. This session will explore how and why researcher identity is being exploited in editorial processes, engaging attendees in an open dialog about how our community can tackle these issues. We will present the recommendations of a cross-industry working group for applying more stringent identity verification steps throughout the peer review process. These recommendations reflect the wide disparity in access to technologies across our global community, and provide publishers with a flexible framework to determine the level of risk within their editorial processes, and the verification workflows that are appropriate.
Publication Date
May 2025

47th Annual Meeting (2025)

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Although every year in the scholarly publishing ecosystem is a balancing act of innovation, optimization, and value creation, 2025 is shaping up to be particularly challenging as the pace and scale of change is accelerating more than we’ve ever seen before. There is increasing pressure to provide value to and to meet the incredibly diverse needs of the global research community while maintaining financial health for our own organizations, living our values, and continuing to protect the scholarly record. With AI, open access, integrity, and mistrust frequently dominating the conversation, we are in the midst of an unprecedented shift in both our industry and society as a whole. As always, the SSP community continues to focus on bringing together academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, researchers and countless others with a communal interest and stake in disseminating scholarly information. We look to the 47th Annual Meeting as an opportunity to continue this tradition and welcome all colleagues and community stakeholders.