Dear PKP community,
I’d like to invite you to an online demo about a plugin we made and have your feedback!
Over 600 scientific papers have been retracted in recent years due to fraudulent peer review using puppet reviewer accounts [1]. In such cases, authors manipulated the editorial process to review their own work. Other forms of identity-related academic fraud are also on the rise. Besides fraud, there are mundane issues in just identifying people correctly. GÉANT [2] project’s Trust & Identity may can offer meaningful solutions. We will present experimental methods for researcher vetting, including integration with the widely-used Open Journal Systems (OJS) editorial platform.
Here is what the editors would see:
Details:
The demo will take place on Zoom on Thursday, 5 June 2025, from 16:00 to 16:30 CEST.
(Start times: San Francisco – 7:00 AM, New York – 10:00 AM, London – 3:00 PM, Athens – 5:00 PM)
Details and registration link: https://wiki.geant.org/display/G52W5/Invitation+to+Cycle+10+half-time+Demo.
Hope to see you there,
Mihály
[1] as reported by Oransky, I., 2020. Retraction watch: What we’ve learned and how metrics
play a role. In Gaming the Metrics, MIT Press. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9085626
[2] GÉANT is a flagship EU project, a collaboration of European National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) on infrastructure and services. Users may know us by our services like EDUROAM, EDUGAIN and high-speed networks.