#research-integrity

#research-integrity

China increased its investment in science by more than 3,800% between 1996 and 2023, says Bilal Demirel, who studies science and innovation at the Rathenau Institute in The Hague, the Netherlands, and is now coming close to matching what the United States spends. With China currently increasing its annual R&D budget by 7% - while US funding looks set to fall under President Donald Trump - there is every chance China will lead on research investment in the coming years.

Scientists moved a step closer to understanding the complex causes of autism this week. Although all of the headlines went to US President Donald Trump's poorly evidenced statements that the painkiller acetaminophen is linked to the neurodevelopmental condition, his White House autism event brought welcome - and largely overlooked - news to scientists: the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is investing US$50 million in an unusual autism-research effort.

The new policies are the agencies' first response to two White House executive orders that directed agencies to put political appointees in charge of decisions about science funding and integrity. The policies could shape the work of the nearly 300,000 scientists and engineerswho work for federal agencies and the almost US$200 billion of science funded by the US government.

The analysis found that 45 editors handled only 1.3% of all articles published by PLoS ONE from 2006 to 2023, yet accepted over 30% of the 702 retractions issued by the journal by early 2024.

The Metascience Alliance is a coalition of more than 25 funders, academic groups, companies and other institutions that pursue metascience: the use of scientific methods to understand and improve science itself.

Researchers identified 454 overused terms from AI language models, revealing that 13.5 to 40 percent of biomedical article abstracts were likely generated or assisted by AI.

The Research Integrity Risk Index categorizes institutions based on research integrity, helping identify those prioritizing publication metrics over rigorous science.

"Arriola's name does not appear on the original publication in the 20 most recent entries on his profile and a university professor confirmed he was not involved."

Hall claims that aides for Kennedy blocked him from being directly interviewed by New York Times reporters about the study; he was only allowed to provide written responses.