Trust Beyond the Manuscript

Join us for the second day of STM's Innovation & Integrity Days 2024 to learn more about the latest trends in research integrity, interact with the STM Integrity Hub, and help us shape the future of how we advance trusted research in our Conference Day: Trust beyond the manuscript. 

Please note the change of venue: we're convening at the Congress Center in London. See what's in store and register to join us! What’s this? An immersion into the latest trends, approaches, and innovations in research integrity.

What to expect?

Led by experts and powered by colleagues in a collaborative, hands-on format. Here, you will:

• Learn about the latest trends in research integrity
• Gain insights into today’s leading threats such as paper mills, generative AI, and simultaneous submissions — and what you can be doing to tackle them
• Explore the latest tools and innovations designed to detect fraudulent manuscripts; hear tips and tricks from experts
• Get updates from tools and services
• Interact with the STM Integrity Hub
• Help us shape the future of research integrity; by joining in to discuss the strategy and priorities for the Hub in 2025 and beyond with the people overseeing its development.

Who attends?

Individuals who share a commitment to research integrity and are involved in integrity activities on a daily basis — research integrity managers, publishers, publishing directors, and others. *

Provisional Programme

08:30	Registration, coffee & networking
09:00	Opening & Welcome Chris Graf, Research Integrity Director, Springer Nature Group
09:10	An update from the STM Integrity Hub Joris van Rossum, Program Director, STM Solutions
09:30	The How and Why of Who is Who? Researcher Identity Task-and-Finish Group recommendations, followed by a panel discussion Moderated by: Hylke Koers, Chief Information Officer, STM Solutions Richard Northover, Product Manager, Identity + Access, STM Solutions Ralph Youngen, Senior Director of Technology Strategy and Partnerships, American Chemical Society Tom Demeranville, Product Director, ORCID Catriona Leslie, Research Integrity Auditor Manager, Frontiers
10.30	Refreshment break & networking
11:00	After GenAI: new technologies to establish the authenticity of images and data Moderated by: Phill Jones, Co-Founder, Digital and Technology, MoreBrains Consulting Cooperative Neil Jefferies, Executive Director, Open Preservation Foundation; Director, Data Futures GmbH & Digital Innovation, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford Carmen Lozano Abellán, Global Imaging Product Manager, Cytiva Olivia Nippe, Senior Publishing Ethics Expert, Elsevier
12:00	Lunch and networking
13:00	Untangling the web: Exposing malicious networks of authors, reviewers, and citations. Integrity specialists sharing their experiences. Moderated by: Maria Kowalczuk, Research Integrity Auditor Manager, Frontiers Kim Eggleton, Head of Peer Review and Research Integrity, IOPP Tamara Welschot, Head of Research Integrity, Prevention, Springer Nature Laura Wilson, Head of Research Integrity and Ethics, Taylor & Francis Duncan Anning, Senior Publishing Ethics Expert, Elsevier
14:00	A session with sleuths. What are the new trends? And how can publishers, editors, and sleuths work better together? Moderated by: Jana Christopher, Image Data Integrity Analyst, Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) Boris Barbour, PubPeer organiser, PubPeer Dorothy Bishop, Emeritus Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology, University of Oxford Cyril Labbé, co-founder of the Problematic Paper Screener & Professor in Computer Science and head of the Information Systems research team at the Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, France. Nick Wise, Principal Supervisor, Clare College, University of Cambridge
15:00	Refreshment break & networking
15:30	Updates: United 2 Act, STM Research Integrity Committee Moderated by: Coro Power Febres, Research Integrity Manager,  Taylor and Francis Sabina Alam, Director of Publishing Ethics and Integrity, Taylor and Francis Group Sarah Jenkins, Director Research Integrity & Ethics, Elsevier
16:00	Policy & Practice:  how to deal with ambiguity, new technologies, and changing policies. Moderated by Luigi Longobardi, Director of Publishing Ethics & Conduct, IEEE Mike Streeter, Director Research Integrity, Wiley Alice Coles-Aldridge, Senior Editor, Publication Ethics, PLOSA Adya Misra, Associate Director, Research Integrity, SAGE Publications
16:45	Wrap-up and closing Chris Graf, Research Integrity Director. Springer Nature Group Atypon representative Followed by a Drinks Reception sponsored by Atypon

Programme Committee:

• Tony Alves, Senior Vice President, HighWire Press
• Jana Christopher, Image Data Integrity Analyst, Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)
• Hylke Koers, Chief Information Officer for STM Solutions
• Maria Kowalczuk, Research Integrity Auditor Manager, Frontiers
• Luigi Longobardi, Director Publishing Ethics & Conduct, IEEE
• Coro Power Febres, Research Integrity Manager, Taylor and Francis
• Joris van Rossum, Program Director of STM Solutions

(*) Please note that in light of its confidential nature, STM holds the right to limit access to this event.