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Gengyan Tang
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PhD Student at @ucalgary.bsky.social | Exploring #ScholarlyPublishing, #ResearchIntegrity, #AcademicIntegrity, and #HigherEducation | Social Media Manager of @accountabilityair.bsky.social | Lover of cats.
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wcrifoundation.bsky.social
New study on 452 WCRI abstracts finds that only 28% of empirical studies were registered, and this rate didn’t improve across conferences. Verifiable registrations rose from 44% to 88%.

#WCRI #WCRI2026 #ResearchIntegrity #OpenScience #ResearchEthics
November 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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wcrifoundation.bsky.social
⏰ Only one day left!

Both abstract submissions and travel grant applications for the 9th #WCRI2026 close on October 15, 2025!

📍May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver, Canada

Share your work and join global conversations.

🔗https://wcri2026.org/call-for-abstracts/

#ResearchIntegrity
October 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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wcrifoundation.bsky.social
⏰ 3 days left!

Both abstract submissions and travel grant applications for the 9th #WCRI2026 close on October 15, 2025!

📍 May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦

Share your work and join global conversations.

🔗 wcri2026.org/call-for-abs...

#ResearchIntegrity
October 13, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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accountabilityair.bsky.social
📝 Latest Publication Alert! 📝

"A classroom exercise for improving mentor/mentee relationships"

Robert Klitzman

→ doi.org/10.1080/0898...

#ResearchEthics
#ResearchIntegrity
#ResponsibleResearch
A classroom exercise for improving mentor/mentee relationships
Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) courses seek to heighten awareness of the importance of mentor/mentee interactions and other topics, but questions remain – e.g., how best to train mentors/men...
doi.org
September 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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wcrifoundation.bsky.social
🚨 Registration is OPEN!

Join us in Vancouver for the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity (#WCRI2026), May 3–6, 2026.

🌍 All disciplines, all career stages

📍 Venue: The Westin Bayshore

🔗 Register now + book your stay: wcri2026.org/registration/
September 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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wcrifoundation.bsky.social
The education plan of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, cited 15 non-existent sources.

#AcademicIntegrity #ResearchIntegrity #Canada #Newfoundland #Education #WCRI2026 #WCRI

www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/09/15/e...
Education Plan Cites Nonexistent Sources
In Canada, Education Accord NL just released it’s 10-year-plan for the province’s education system. However, some of the sources were fabricated.
www.plagiarismtoday.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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wcrifoundation.bsky.social
⏳ 1 month to go! Submit your #WCRI2026 abstracts by Oct 15, 2025.

📅 May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver

🗓️ Preliminary schedule, commissions, hosting & sponsorship details live now.

#ResearchIntegrity
wcrifoundation.bsky.social World Conferences on Research Integrity @wcrifoundation.bsky.social · Aug 27
📢 #WCRI2026 update!

📅 May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver

✨ Call for Abstracts – deadline Oct 15, 2025

🗓️Preliminary schedule is online, along with details on commissions, hosting opportunities, and sponsorship.

👉All links are in the replies below

#ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026
September 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
gengyantang.bsky.social
Proud to share my perspective in Canadian Affairs’ latest piece on the systemic gaps in tackling fake science in Canada.

#AcademicIntegrity #ResearchIntegrity

www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/08/29/w...
Why Canada is ill-equipped to tackle the growing threat of fake science
A global surge in fake and low-quality research papers highlights cracks in the peer review process and universities' oversight of their researchers
www.canadianaffairs.news
September 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
gengyantang.bsky.social
Call for abstracts!
Deadline Oct 15!
wcrifoundation.bsky.social World Conferences on Research Integrity @wcrifoundation.bsky.social · Aug 27
📢 #WCRI2026 update!

📅 May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver

✨ Call for Abstracts – deadline Oct 15, 2025

🗓️Preliminary schedule is online, along with details on commissions, hosting opportunities, and sponsorship.

👉All links are in the replies below

#ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026
August 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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jabyrnesci.bsky.social
A paper that combines #peerreview & cheese... what could be better? Answer: writing said paper with @abalkina.bsky.social @image-integrity.bsky.social & Marie Souliere. Read on to learn how the Swiss Cheese Model could help peer review & #researchintegrity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Rethinking Peer Review Using the Swiss Cheese Model to Better Flag Problematic Manuscripts
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
gengyantang.bsky.social
"College students, including from elite universities, are abandoning school now to work full-time on preventing AGI from turning on humanity."

#AI #AIGC #HigherEducation

www.forbes.com/sites/victor...
Fear Of AGI Is Driving Harvard And MIT Students To Drop Out
AGI — a theoretical AI that can do many of the same tasks as humans can — could come within a decade. College students, including from elite universities, are abandoning school now to work full-time o...
www.forbes.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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wcrifoundation.bsky.social
Wonderful resource for #ResearchIntegrity discussions:
31 short personal reviews of novels, now also published open access in Chinese.
lexbouter.bsky.social Lex Bouter @lexbouter.bsky.social · Aug 12
Nice! My preprint with short personal reviews of 31 novels on #ResearchIntegrity now published open access in Chinese.
English preprint: bit.ly/409E5ff
Chinese publication: bit.ly/4osKFYp
@peerreviewcongress.bsky.social @wcrifoundation.bsky.social @nrin-integrity.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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wcrifoundation.bsky.social
Have a look here: bit.ly/477JbMK, where the Lancet-
World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation Committee on Research Integrity is announced! This Commission will take a multifactor and multistakeholder approach to work towards solutions that promote the quality and credibility of research.
July 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
gengyantang.bsky.social
🧠🤖 Just discovered Agents4Science 2025, organized by researchers at Stanford University — a conference where AI is the first author and the reviewer.

From hypothesis to publication, it's AI all the way.

#AI #AIResearch
July 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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wcrifoundation.bsky.social
"Scientific norms shape the behavior of researchers working for the greater good"

#ResearchIntegrity

theconversation.com/scientific-n...
Scientific norms shape the behavior of researchers working for the greater good
While rarely explicitly taught to scientists in training, a set of common values guides science in the quest to advance knowledge while being ethical and trustworthy.
theconversation.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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wcrifoundation.bsky.social
“Invisible by Design? Rethinking Global Indexing to Include MENA Journals”

#ScholarlyPublishing

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/03/g...
Guest Post - Invisible by Design? Rethinking Global Indexing to Include MENA Journals - The Scholarly Kitchen
This post explores why many Middle East- and North Africa-based journals remain underrepresented in global indexing databases, how this affects both local and international knowledge flows, and what a...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
July 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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wcrifoundation.bsky.social
"New tool aims to deter gaming in global university rankings"

#ResearchIntegrity

www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
New tool aims to deter gaming in global university rankings
A new research integrity risk index aims to identify institutions with globally atypical research performance patterns, highlighting systemic vulnerab...
www.universityworldnews.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
gengyantang.bsky.social
Join us for a public keynote on academic integrity & law by Prof. Michael Draper, hosted by @saraheaton.bsky.social

📅 July 2, 15:00–16:30

📍Education Tower 314, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary

Open to all — join us to discuss legal and policy challenges in education!
July 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
gengyantang.bsky.social
Abstract submission and travel grant application are open now.
wcrifoundation.bsky.social World Conferences on Research Integrity @wcrifoundation.bsky.social · Jun 27
Abstract submission and travel grant application for the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity are open. Please consider to submit an abstract and to reshare this message. lnkd.in/eJ9hmaRs
June 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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accountabilityair.bsky.social
📝 Latest Publication Alert! 📝

“Author academic influence and manuscript acceptance: Evidence from peer review in cell press journals"

Guangyao Zhang, Lili Wang, Yixian Yin & Xianwen Wang

→ doi.org/10.1080/0898...

#PeerReview
#AcademicPublishing
#AcademicInfluence
Author academic influence and manuscript acceptance: Evidence from peer review in cell press journals
Prior studies on peer review have largely focused on manuscript characteristics as the primary determinants of acceptance decisions. Although author academic influence is widely recognized in pract...
doi.org
June 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
gengyantang.bsky.social
Excited to share that the official World Conferences on Research Integrity is now on Bluesky!

We’ll be sharing updates, reflections, and resources leading up to the 9th WCRI in 2026.
wcrifoundation.bsky.social World Conferences on Research Integrity @wcrifoundation.bsky.social · Jun 24
And the exciting announcement! The 9th WCRI is set to take place in Vancouver, Canada, in 2026! Look forward to seeing you all there!
June 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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accountabilityair.bsky.social
We are thrilled to report that with the release of the new Impact Factors from Web of Science, Accountability in Research received a 4.0!

Thank you to our amazing Associate Editors, Editorial Board, and very hard-working reviewers - it's an amazing group!

#ImpactFactor #WebofScience
June 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
gengyantang.bsky.social
Thank you so much for offering this opportunity to talk about my paper.
June 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
gengyantang.bsky.social
Happy to see our recent article on citation contamination by paper mill articles in systematic reviews featured in
@statnews.com !

#ResearchIntegrity #PaperMills #ScholarlyPublishing #SystematicReviews

www.statnews.com/2025/06/12/r...
Systematic reviews cited retracted articles, new study finds
A new study found some systematic reviews included retracted studies from paper mills, journals that produce low quality research
www.statnews.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM