Addressing Research Integrity with Identity Verification

Duration: 54 mins
Publication Date: May 2025

About the session

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.

Collection

Annual Meeting (2025)

Speakers

Director Content Operations, AIP Publishing

Theresa Fucito is the Director of Content Operations for AIP Publishing. She has more than 26 years of experience in journal publishing and leading a team of publishing professionals. In her role, she oversees day-to-day publishing operations and works closely with our internal stakeholders, Editorial Development, Books Publisher, and Peer Review Management to support long-term strategic growth and development.
Chief Information Officer, STM Solutions

Hylke Koers is the Chief Information Officer for STM Solutions, STM’s operational arm which develops and manages shared infrastructures and collaborative services to support the scholarly communications community. Before joining STM, Hylke worked in several senior technology and product management roles, in both private and public sector organizations, supporting the research community. Hylke also held leading roles in FAIRsFAIR, the Research Data Alliance and served on the EOSC Architecture Working Group. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Amsterdam.
Founder/CEO, LibLynx

Tim Lloyd is founder and CEO of LibLynx, a business helping publishers, service providers and libraries to manage identity and access to online resources, and better understand the usage and impact of those resources. Tim is a member of the Governance committee and co-Chair of the Outreach committee for SeamlessAccess.org, and a member of COUNTER’s Open Access/Unpaywalled sub-group. His career spans several decades in a variety of product development and operational roles in online publishing, with a particular focus on developing innovative products and services to support online learning and research.
Senior Director, Digital Strategy and Business Integration, American Chemical Society

Ralph Youngen is Senior Director, Digital Strategy at the American Chemical Society where he oversees the content delivery, peer review, and identity management platforms for ACS Publications. Ralph holds key leadership roles in several industry initiatives aimed at supporting the needs of the scholarly research community. He was past Co-Chair of the joint STM and NISO RA21 initiative and now serves as a member of the governance committee for SeamlessAccess, its operational successor. Ralph is one of the founders of GetFTR, serves on STM’s Standards and Technology Executive Committee, and is chair of the STM Solutions Access Cluster.