Johannes Gierschner
@gierschner.bsky.social
Senior Research Prof. IMDEA Nanoscience Madrid
💻🧪Photophysics of Organic & Hybrid Materials
😐💪 Scientific Integrity Decline
Profile: nanoscience.imdea.org/home-en/people/item/johannes-gierschner
Website: www.uv.es/jogiers
orcid.org/0000-0001-8177-7919
💻🧪Photophysics of Organic & Hybrid Materials
😐💪 Scientific Integrity Decline
Profile: nanoscience.imdea.org/home-en/people/item/johannes-gierschner
Website: www.uv.es/jogiers
orcid.org/0000-0001-8177-7919
👉Science in (AI-assisted) buzzword times:
"Revolutionizing" appears 6450 times in Titles of Scientific Papers👇
...essentially all (5592 = 87%) since 2023
Modesty is part of #ResearchIntegrity
"Revolutionizing" appears 6450 times in Titles of Scientific Papers👇
...essentially all (5592 = 87%) since 2023
Modesty is part of #ResearchIntegrity
January 5, 2026 at 7:25 AM
👉Science in (AI-assisted) buzzword times:
"Revolutionizing" appears 6450 times in Titles of Scientific Papers👇
...essentially all (5592 = 87%) since 2023
Modesty is part of #ResearchIntegrity
"Revolutionizing" appears 6450 times in Titles of Scientific Papers👇
...essentially all (5592 = 87%) since 2023
Modesty is part of #ResearchIntegrity
👇on the extraordinary profit margins of scientific publishers, all on public costs, now also covered by El Diario (Spain) @eldiario.es
👉public pressure = essential element for #ResearchIntegrity
👉public pressure = essential element for #ResearchIntegrity
Dinero gastado, tiempo invertido y menos confianza en el sistema: cómo las cuatro grandes editoriales "drenan" la ciencia
La deriva de las últimas décadas ha otorgado el control sobre la ciencia a los grandes grupos editoriales privados, sostiene un estudio que indica que Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley y Taylor & Franc...
www.eldiario.es
January 3, 2026 at 9:26 AM
👇on the extraordinary profit margins of scientific publishers, all on public costs, now also covered by El Diario (Spain) @eldiario.es
👉public pressure = essential element for #ResearchIntegrity
👉public pressure = essential element for #ResearchIntegrity
🎆Congratulations🎇 Sleuths at PubPeer - pubpeer.com :
End-of-the-Year Countdown runs for 250,000 flagged papers!!
...that's a 3‰ of total publications over all years & disciplines (ca. 76,000,000)
👉essential for #ResearchIntegrity
End-of-the-Year Countdown runs for 250,000 flagged papers!!
...that's a 3‰ of total publications over all years & disciplines (ca. 76,000,000)
👉essential for #ResearchIntegrity
December 31, 2025 at 7:13 AM
🎆Congratulations🎇 Sleuths at PubPeer - pubpeer.com :
End-of-the-Year Countdown runs for 250,000 flagged papers!!
...that's a 3‰ of total publications over all years & disciplines (ca. 76,000,000)
👉essential for #ResearchIntegrity
End-of-the-Year Countdown runs for 250,000 flagged papers!!
...that's a 3‰ of total publications over all years & disciplines (ca. 76,000,000)
👉essential for #ResearchIntegrity
RI2 Research Integrity Risk Index - by Lokman I. Meho👇
The broad coverage in public media:
sites.aub.edu.lb/lmeho/ri2/me...
gave some hope in 2025 for #ResearchIntegrity
The broad coverage in public media:
sites.aub.edu.lb/lmeho/ri2/me...
gave some hope in 2025 for #ResearchIntegrity
December 29, 2025 at 7:40 AM
RI2 Research Integrity Risk Index - by Lokman I. Meho👇
The broad coverage in public media:
sites.aub.edu.lb/lmeho/ri2/me...
gave some hope in 2025 for #ResearchIntegrity
The broad coverage in public media:
sites.aub.edu.lb/lmeho/ri2/me...
gave some hope in 2025 for #ResearchIntegrity
J. Molecular Liquids delisted from WoS, reports @retractionwatch.com
..."well" deserved indeed, as it's a main target for paper mills & citation cartels... #ResearchIntegrity
..."well" deserved indeed, as it's a main target for paper mills & citation cartels... #ResearchIntegrity
Retraction Watch
Elsevier’s Journal of Molecular Liquids is one of four journals delisted from Clarivate’s Web of Science this month.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-molecular-liquids...
www.facebook.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
J. Molecular Liquids delisted from WoS, reports @retractionwatch.com
..."well" deserved indeed, as it's a main target for paper mills & citation cartels... #ResearchIntegrity
..."well" deserved indeed, as it's a main target for paper mills & citation cartels... #ResearchIntegrity
👇"invited" by a Scam Conference on "Advanced Chemistry" featuring speakers from the "Military Fire Brigade of the Federal District, Brazil" ?? 😂 ...you really made my day #researchintegrity
December 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
👇"invited" by a Scam Conference on "Advanced Chemistry" featuring speakers from the "Military Fire Brigade of the Federal District, Brazil" ?? 😂 ...you really made my day #researchintegrity
👇Next "New Physics"? Theoretical Chemists identify a compound with a melting temp. of 5400 K ? #CompChemSky
...or again just a simple Numerical Error?!😮 - because no one cares what's written in "scientific" papers, only counting cites & money? #researchintegrity
pubpeer.com/publications...
...or again just a simple Numerical Error?!😮 - because no one cares what's written in "scientific" papers, only counting cites & money? #researchintegrity
pubpeer.com/publications...
December 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
👇Next "New Physics"? Theoretical Chemists identify a compound with a melting temp. of 5400 K ? #CompChemSky
...or again just a simple Numerical Error?!😮 - because no one cares what's written in "scientific" papers, only counting cites & money? #researchintegrity
pubpeer.com/publications...
...or again just a simple Numerical Error?!😮 - because no one cares what's written in "scientific" papers, only counting cites & money? #researchintegrity
pubpeer.com/publications...
👇Preprint server for AI written & reviewed papers!?
...and then, AI will "read" & cite it's own stuff, in a paper avalanche, until AI's statistical intelligence will entirely ignore any critical comments by humans...
This is what we want?
a "AI self-referential universe"?
#ResearchIntegrity
...and then, AI will "read" & cite it's own stuff, in a paper avalanche, until AI's statistical intelligence will entirely ignore any critical comments by humans...
This is what we want?
a "AI self-referential universe"?
#ResearchIntegrity
A new preprint server welcomes papers written and reviewed by AI
With human peer review struggling to keep pace with machine-generated science, aiXiv enlists bots to help
www.science.org
December 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
👇Preprint server for AI written & reviewed papers!?
...and then, AI will "read" & cite it's own stuff, in a paper avalanche, until AI's statistical intelligence will entirely ignore any critical comments by humans...
This is what we want?
a "AI self-referential universe"?
#ResearchIntegrity
...and then, AI will "read" & cite it's own stuff, in a paper avalanche, until AI's statistical intelligence will entirely ignore any critical comments by humans...
This is what we want?
a "AI self-referential universe"?
#ResearchIntegrity
Weekend Read:
👇Wedding Proposal in an Acknowledgement of a Scientific Paper??
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
No wonder the paper was cited 220 times - not only by the bride-to-be, but also other usual suspects... #ResearchIntegrity
But now, S. Zhu, I want to know: did you marry in the end, anyway? 💍
👇Wedding Proposal in an Acknowledgement of a Scientific Paper??
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
No wonder the paper was cited 220 times - not only by the bride-to-be, but also other usual suspects... #ResearchIntegrity
But now, S. Zhu, I want to know: did you marry in the end, anyway? 💍
December 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Weekend Read:
👇Wedding Proposal in an Acknowledgement of a Scientific Paper??
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
No wonder the paper was cited 220 times - not only by the bride-to-be, but also other usual suspects... #ResearchIntegrity
But now, S. Zhu, I want to know: did you marry in the end, anyway? 💍
👇Wedding Proposal in an Acknowledgement of a Scientific Paper??
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
No wonder the paper was cited 220 times - not only by the bride-to-be, but also other usual suspects... #ResearchIntegrity
But now, S. Zhu, I want to know: did you marry in the end, anyway? 💍
I'll talk about #ResearchIntegrity at the
Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry @vwscc.bsky.social #CompChemSky on Jan, 28th, 9:00 CET
Thanks again to the VWSCC Team for the kind invitation, in particular Sandra Gomez @quimicafisica1.bsky.social
Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry @vwscc.bsky.social #CompChemSky on Jan, 28th, 9:00 CET
Thanks again to the VWSCC Team for the kind invitation, in particular Sandra Gomez @quimicafisica1.bsky.social
Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry - Erosion of Scientific Integrity Fueled by Quantitative Evaluation Metrics – A Case Study in Theoretical Chemistry
Online congress discussing state of the art computational chemistry
winterschool.cc
December 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I'll talk about #ResearchIntegrity at the
Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry @vwscc.bsky.social #CompChemSky on Jan, 28th, 9:00 CET
Thanks again to the VWSCC Team for the kind invitation, in particular Sandra Gomez @quimicafisica1.bsky.social
Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry @vwscc.bsky.social #CompChemSky on Jan, 28th, 9:00 CET
Thanks again to the VWSCC Team for the kind invitation, in particular Sandra Gomez @quimicafisica1.bsky.social
How to juice your Google Scholar h-index...
...just an increase case of what thousands of researchers out there are doing day by day, eroding #researchintegrity
...also in #chemsky, #compchemsky #pisky
...just an increase case of what thousands of researchers out there are doing day by day, eroding #researchintegrity
...also in #chemsky, #compchemsky #pisky
How to juice your Google Scholar h-index, preprint by preprint
A screenshot of Yousaf’s Google Scholar profile before it was removed. Muhammad Zain Yousaf, a postdoc at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, became a scholar of note overnight. Or so it …
retractionwatch.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:39 AM
How to juice your Google Scholar h-index...
...just an increase case of what thousands of researchers out there are doing day by day, eroding #researchintegrity
...also in #chemsky, #compchemsky #pisky
...just an increase case of what thousands of researchers out there are doing day by day, eroding #researchintegrity
...also in #chemsky, #compchemsky #pisky
This "scientific" journal goes on spamming me, although I told them that I'm not Prof. XY, whom they wanted to convince to publish in their "70% acceptance rate" journal...
Oh @wiley.com how low can you go? And you signed DORA?
...or you don't know what your journals are doing? #researchintegrity
Oh @wiley.com how low can you go? And you signed DORA?
...or you don't know what your journals are doing? #researchintegrity
EcoEnergy
Click on the title to browse this journal
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:21 AM
This "scientific" journal goes on spamming me, although I told them that I'm not Prof. XY, whom they wanted to convince to publish in their "70% acceptance rate" journal...
Oh @wiley.com how low can you go? And you signed DORA?
...or you don't know what your journals are doing? #researchintegrity
Oh @wiley.com how low can you go? And you signed DORA?
...or you don't know what your journals are doing? #researchintegrity
👉On the Increasing Perversion of the Scientific Publishing System👇
Thank you, @manuelansede.bsky.social at @elpais.com, to put this into the limelight of public discussion in Spain & beyond!
#researchintegrity needs social pressure
Thank you, @manuelansede.bsky.social at @elpais.com, to put this into the limelight of public discussion in Spain & beyond!
#researchintegrity needs social pressure
La caída de una megarrevista científica expone el pelotazo de las editoriales en la ciencia
Una de las cabeceras que más estudios publican en el mundo, expulsada del sistema por irregularidades. Su editorial, Elsevier, supera los 1.300 millones de euros de beneficios al año
elpais.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
👉On the Increasing Perversion of the Scientific Publishing System👇
Thank you, @manuelansede.bsky.social at @elpais.com, to put this into the limelight of public discussion in Spain & beyond!
#researchintegrity needs social pressure
Thank you, @manuelansede.bsky.social at @elpais.com, to put this into the limelight of public discussion in Spain & beyond!
#researchintegrity needs social pressure
Manipulation of University Rankings = Destroys Confidence in Science
STOP Counting Numbers 🚫 #researchintegrity
[also concerns #chemsky #compchemsky #pisky]
STOP Counting Numbers 🚫 #researchintegrity
[also concerns #chemsky #compchemsky #pisky]
Exclusive: ‘Highly problematic’ policy has Saudi university pressuring faculty to cite its research
Prince Sultan University At Prince Sultan University in Saudi Arabia, faculty members must help raise their school’s academic standing not by doing impactful work, but by citing the institution’s r…
retractionwatch.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Manipulation of University Rankings = Destroys Confidence in Science
STOP Counting Numbers 🚫 #researchintegrity
[also concerns #chemsky #compchemsky #pisky]
STOP Counting Numbers 🚫 #researchintegrity
[also concerns #chemsky #compchemsky #pisky]
👉Clarivate excluded another 432 of 7000 researchers in the 2025 Highly Cited Researcher list👇
With the former exclusions (2021: 300, 2022: 500, 2023: 1000, 2024: 2000), a total of > 35% of all HCR researchers is now excluded, showing the extent of systematic Citation Gaming...
#researchintegrity
With the former exclusions (2021: 300, 2022: 500, 2023: 1000, 2024: 2000), a total of > 35% of all HCR researchers is now excluded, showing the extent of systematic Citation Gaming...
#researchintegrity
Highly Cited Researchers Analysis 2025 | Clarivate
In-depth analysis of the 2025 list of Highly Cited Researchers from Clarivate: trends, institution rankings and global research impact.
clarivate.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
👉Clarivate excluded another 432 of 7000 researchers in the 2025 Highly Cited Researcher list👇
With the former exclusions (2021: 300, 2022: 500, 2023: 1000, 2024: 2000), a total of > 35% of all HCR researchers is now excluded, showing the extent of systematic Citation Gaming...
#researchintegrity
With the former exclusions (2021: 300, 2022: 500, 2023: 1000, 2024: 2000), a total of > 35% of all HCR researchers is now excluded, showing the extent of systematic Citation Gaming...
#researchintegrity
Talk on #researchintegrity at the Symposium on Lung Metastasis on the occasion of the Prof. award to Dr. Marcus Krüger in Halle, Germany.
Congratulations again for the achievement, Marcus, and thank you once more for the kind invitation.
Congratulations again for the achievement, Marcus, and thank you once more for the kind invitation.
November 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Talk on #researchintegrity at the Symposium on Lung Metastasis on the occasion of the Prof. award to Dr. Marcus Krüger in Halle, Germany.
Congratulations again for the achievement, Marcus, and thank you once more for the kind invitation.
Congratulations again for the achievement, Marcus, and thank you once more for the kind invitation.
2nd Internat. Symposium on Emerging Photovoltaic Materials, Tsinghua SIGS, organized by Safakath Karuthedath
Thank you, Safakath, for the kind invitation to the 2 seminars, i.e. on our research #chemsky #PiSky , and on #researchintegrity
A great week with tutorials & discussions!
Thank you, Safakath, for the kind invitation to the 2 seminars, i.e. on our research #chemsky #PiSky , and on #researchintegrity
A great week with tutorials & discussions!
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
2nd Internat. Symposium on Emerging Photovoltaic Materials, Tsinghua SIGS, organized by Safakath Karuthedath
Thank you, Safakath, for the kind invitation to the 2 seminars, i.e. on our research #chemsky #PiSky , and on #researchintegrity
A great week with tutorials & discussions!
Thank you, Safakath, for the kind invitation to the 2 seminars, i.e. on our research #chemsky #PiSky , and on #researchintegrity
A great week with tutorials & discussions!
🙂 With Zengqi Xie at SCUT: research talks, tuturial & discussions on #chemsky #pisky
...and seminar & course on #researchintegrity
Thanks again, Zengqi & group, for 3 packed, great days!
...and seminar & course on #researchintegrity
Thanks again, Zengqi & group, for 3 packed, great days!
November 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🙂 With Zengqi Xie at SCUT: research talks, tuturial & discussions on #chemsky #pisky
...and seminar & course on #researchintegrity
Thanks again, Zengqi & group, for 3 packed, great days!
...and seminar & course on #researchintegrity
Thanks again, Zengqi & group, for 3 packed, great days!
Dr. Indranil Bhattacharjee has left the group to join Distinkt www.distinkt.tech in Barcelona, as R&D chief scientist. All the best for your future, Indranil!
November 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Dr. Indranil Bhattacharjee has left the group to join Distinkt www.distinkt.tech in Barcelona, as R&D chief scientist. All the best for your future, Indranil!
👉Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com reports👇:
"Web of Science company involved in dubious awards in Iraq"
#researchintegrity
"Web of Science company involved in dubious awards in Iraq"
#researchintegrity
Exclusive: Web of Science company involved in dubious awards in Iraq
Hayder A. Dhahad, Iraq’s deputy minister for scientific research affairs, speaks at an awards ceremony at the country’s Science Day celebration. Source: Instagram In the string of prestigious…
retractionwatch.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 AM
👉Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com reports👇:
"Web of Science company involved in dubious awards in Iraq"
#researchintegrity
"Web of Science company involved in dubious awards in Iraq"
#researchintegrity
Happy to organize once more the Course on
"Simulation of Materials" within the European MSc in Theoretical Chemistry & Computational Modelling EM-TCCM @emtccm.bsky.social
at IMDEA Nanoscience @imdeanano.bsky.social.
👉Thanks to Org.Team members Cristina, José & Begoña
#CompChemSky
"Simulation of Materials" within the European MSc in Theoretical Chemistry & Computational Modelling EM-TCCM @emtccm.bsky.social
at IMDEA Nanoscience @imdeanano.bsky.social.
👉Thanks to Org.Team members Cristina, José & Begoña
#CompChemSky
October 30, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Happy to organize once more the Course on
"Simulation of Materials" within the European MSc in Theoretical Chemistry & Computational Modelling EM-TCCM @emtccm.bsky.social
at IMDEA Nanoscience @imdeanano.bsky.social.
👉Thanks to Org.Team members Cristina, José & Begoña
#CompChemSky
"Simulation of Materials" within the European MSc in Theoretical Chemistry & Computational Modelling EM-TCCM @emtccm.bsky.social
at IMDEA Nanoscience @imdeanano.bsky.social.
👉Thanks to Org.Team members Cristina, José & Begoña
#CompChemSky
👇 more "scientific artwork"🤨 in #chemsky, flagged at
pubpeer.com/publications...
....no wonder that the lead authors of this 'high-quality' work are listed in the so-called "World's Top 2% Scientists", Elsevier's annual Vanity Fair for Citation Gamer
Stop Counting Numbers = #researchintegrity
pubpeer.com/publications...
....no wonder that the lead authors of this 'high-quality' work are listed in the so-called "World's Top 2% Scientists", Elsevier's annual Vanity Fair for Citation Gamer
Stop Counting Numbers = #researchintegrity
October 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
👇 more "scientific artwork"🤨 in #chemsky, flagged at
pubpeer.com/publications...
....no wonder that the lead authors of this 'high-quality' work are listed in the so-called "World's Top 2% Scientists", Elsevier's annual Vanity Fair for Citation Gamer
Stop Counting Numbers = #researchintegrity
pubpeer.com/publications...
....no wonder that the lead authors of this 'high-quality' work are listed in the so-called "World's Top 2% Scientists", Elsevier's annual Vanity Fair for Citation Gamer
Stop Counting Numbers = #researchintegrity
🤨No & No again! 👉 "Stale Citations" are an integral part of science: to give credit to crucial works of the past, avoiding 'reinventions', being a plague in research, e.g. in #chemsky #pisky
Your biased AI Tool to keep "research fresh" is a tombstone of science. Spooky indeed 😱 #researchintegrity
Your biased AI Tool to keep "research fresh" is a tombstone of science. Spooky indeed 😱 #researchintegrity
Check 18 of 26: citations older than a mummy’s wrap.
Paperpal Preflight for Editorial Desk highlights outdated references, ensuring research stays fresh, relevant and current.
Stale citations belong in history, not in peer review.
#ResearchIntegrity #Halloween
Paperpal Preflight for Editorial Desk highlights outdated references, ensuring research stays fresh, relevant and current.
Stale citations belong in history, not in peer review.
#ResearchIntegrity #Halloween
October 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
🤨No & No again! 👉 "Stale Citations" are an integral part of science: to give credit to crucial works of the past, avoiding 'reinventions', being a plague in research, e.g. in #chemsky #pisky
Your biased AI Tool to keep "research fresh" is a tombstone of science. Spooky indeed 😱 #researchintegrity
Your biased AI Tool to keep "research fresh" is a tombstone of science. Spooky indeed 😱 #researchintegrity
👉 Great to talk about #ResearchIntegrity at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, within the Open Science Week of the Across Alliance www.across-alliance.eu
Thank you again, Giovanni De Ninno & Barbara Ressel, for the kind invitation, and to the audience for the thoughtful discussion!
Thank you again, Giovanni De Ninno & Barbara Ressel, for the kind invitation, and to the audience for the thoughtful discussion!
Across Open Science Week | Across
The Across Alliance is organizing an Open Science Week from October 20 to 24, 2025. Events will take place across all member universities and will also be
www.across-alliance.eu
October 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
👉 Great to talk about #ResearchIntegrity at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, within the Open Science Week of the Across Alliance www.across-alliance.eu
Thank you again, Giovanni De Ninno & Barbara Ressel, for the kind invitation, and to the audience for the thoughtful discussion!
Thank you again, Giovanni De Ninno & Barbara Ressel, for the kind invitation, and to the audience for the thoughtful discussion!
👉"Quality over Quantity" in Publishing - also endorsed by Cambridge University Press 💪💙
#ChemSky, #CompChemSky, #PiSky #researchintegrity
#ChemSky, #CompChemSky, #PiSky #researchintegrity
“We fundamentally believe that publishing less – but better – is essential for the health of the entire research system worldwide,” the authors of the report state.
Less is more: academic publishing needs ‘radical change,’ Cambridge press report concludes
Academic publishing needs “renewed focus and collective action” to embrace new approaches and ensure the future of the industry, concludes a report from Cambridge University Press, released last we…
retractionwatch.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:50 AM
👉"Quality over Quantity" in Publishing - also endorsed by Cambridge University Press 💪💙
#ChemSky, #CompChemSky, #PiSky #researchintegrity
#ChemSky, #CompChemSky, #PiSky #researchintegrity