Research Integrity Officer
Company: IOP Publishing
Location: UK Remote
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We are currently recruiting for an experienced and motivated Research Integrity Officer, ideally with a background in physical sciences, to join our Publishing team on a full-time, permanent basis.
Role Summary
The Research Integrity Officer’s (RIO) role is to contribute to the quality, reliability, and trustworthiness of IOP Publishing’s content by managing allegations of publication misconduct and correcting the scientific record. The RIO addresses allegations of misconduct promptly and consistently, in line with industry guidelines, owning and managing cases to conclusion, with support from the Research Integrity Manager (RIM). The RIO will work with other RIOs and the RIM to support the business in their goal to prevent and tackle emerging research integrity challenges and will work with cross-functional teams across the business to ensure goals and objectives are met.
What will you be doing?
Key job accountabilities:
- Manage assigned investigations relating to allegations of research integrity misconduct, including but not limited to:
- Responding to whistle-blowers
- Challenging communications with authors, reviewers, and board members
- Interpreting plagiarism and other RI reports and assessing articles for potential concerns
- Escalating cases and queries to institutions, and responding to requests from them
- Preparing correction and retraction notices, working closely with production colleagues
- Update internal best practices and supporting materials as agreed with the RIM
About you:
Successful applicants should demonstrate the following:
- Scientific academic background is essential with a physics background desirable
- Extensive experience in an editorial role within journals publishing is required
- Demonstrable understanding of research integrity problems affecting the STM Publishing market is required
- Extensive experience with COPE workflows and guidelines is required
- Resiliency in handling escalated cases is required
- Experienced user of relevant software and tools (e.g. ScholarOne, Crossref Similarity Check) is desirable
We know it is unusual for someone to tick every box so, if you don’t meet all the criteria, but demonstrate most of the skills and experience we are looking for, and have the enthusiasm to work with us, go ahead and apply.
What we offer:
Purpose: We are a world leader in the development of electronic publishing for the scientific community – working in the interests of science and scientists, we aim to maximise the impact of the research we publish;
Culture: We offer a truly international culture with offices in Europe, Asia and the US and our reach is global. Our culture is the perfect blend of dedicated and intelligent professionalism, informal, friendly collaboration and authenticity with a social conscience.
Financial benefits: A competitive salary from £24,000 to £36,000 (Band B) depending on experience, an excellent pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution), a discretionary annual bonus scheme, a £200 stipend payment on completion of the probation period, and a range of other useful and cost-saving benefits available through our benefits platform;
Health and Wellbeing: 33+ days holiday (including bank holidays), a 35-hour working week, life assurance, cycle-to-work scheme, dental insurance, health care cash plan, and a great positive working environment in our brand new office in central Bristol – modern airy and designed with all of our colleagues in mind – for work and social time;
Flexibility: a flexible hybrid working environment to suit everyone’s needs-– we don’t need you in the office every day so we can consider applicants from further afield who can travel to Bristol on average once per quarter depending on when face to face time is needed;
To apply, please submit your CV and cover letter through our careers site.
Please note, interviews will be carried out from 24th January onwards.
About us:
IOP Publishing is an equal-opportunity employer. Our goal is to ensure that diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are built into our identity in a way that is natural and sustainable, visible through the work we produce, our company branding, our professional networks and the communities we serve and support, which includes our employees, talent communities and candidates. We particularly welcome applicants from under-represented backgrounds.
Vision Our vision is that diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are built into our identity in a way that is both natural and sustainable and that is visible through the work we produce, our Ways of Being, our company branding, our professional networks and the colleagues and communities we serve and support