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Prevention of Systematic Manipulation at Scale: Setting a Proactive Strategy

Threats to research and publishing integrity have become increasingly complex over the last two decades. Bad actors are more sophisticated at circumventing established integrity checks, online networks now easily facilitate authorship and citation for sale schemes. Researchers face the challenges of a “publish or perish” system, and generative AI makes content generation easier than ever. This session aims to explore a comprehensive set of strategies from a diverse set of speakers dedicated to ensuring quality of research and trust in the integrity of the scholarly record. Building on a related 2023 session, this panel would turn its focus to how research integrity breaches are prevented at scale, rather than how they are addressed post-publication. Importantly, the elements of such a preventative strategy need to work together and cannot rely on one single approach. They include community thought leadership efforts, such as the United2Act initiative; technology that aides in early identification of broad scale integrity concerns ahead of publication; the development of new policies tailored to scale; and supporting editorial leadership in adopting standardized workflows. Maintaining the trust of readers and preventing reputational damage has never been more imperative for journal publishers, editors, and academic institutions. The audience will gain a deeper understanding of the challenges posed by systematic manipulation and the proactive and collaborative strategies underway to address them effectively.

Publication Date

May 2025

47th Annual Meeting (2025)

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.

Beth Craanen

Director, Editorial Operations, American Physical Society

With over 20 years of experience spanning leadership roles in academic and nonprofit settings, Beth Craanen is a seasoned professional known for driving transformative change and operational excellence. She recently joined the American Physical Society as the Director of Editorial Operations. Beth previously served as the Senior Director of Global Editorial Operations at the American Chemical Society where she led a team through strategic growth and fiscal responsibility. She has also held key leadership roles at The Electrochemical Society where she played a pivotal role in developing innovative open access models and forging successful industry partnerships.

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction & Professor, University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe is Professor/Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction in the University Library and affiliate faculty in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As the 2010-11 ACRL President, she led the launch the ACRL Value of Academic Libraries Initiative. Lisa is currently Editor of Library Trends, a “chef” of The Scholarly Kitchen, and Chair of the IFLA Information Literacy Section. Other service includes positions in DLF, NISO, ARL, ALA, ILA, and LOEX. Lisa has consulted, presented, and published widely on the value of libraries, strategic planning, organizational innovation, emerging technologies, program evaluation, library assessment, privacy, inclusion and equity, information literacy, and teaching and learning.

Megan M. McCarty

Senior Manager, Publishing and Platform Consulting, Wiley

Mike Streeter

Director, Research Integrity Strategy & Policy, Wiley

Mike leads Research Integrity Strategy & Policy at Wiley, collaborating with a cross-functional team representing a range of publishing services and interests. He champions strategic alignment for research integrity and proactive policy development across our Research Publishing organization and with our external partners. Mike is a member of COPE Council and the STM Integrity Hub Governance Board and amplifies Wiley’s mission through frequent industry collaborations and events.

Mu Yang

Director of the Mouse Neurobehavior Core, Columbia University Medical Center

Mu Yang is a behavioral neuroscientist and the Director of the Mouse Neurobehavior Core at Columbia University Medical Center. She is also a “sleuth” whose reports have led over 180 retractions since 2022. She had a lead role in the Eliezer Masliah case.