Image Integrity screening in biomedical research publication - Jana Christopher - FEBS Press

Image Integrity screening in biomedical research publication Jana Christopher FEBS Press Image-Integrity Data Integrity Analyst Founder Image Integrity screening in biomedical research publication Section 1 Image integrity screening at journal level, Key screening techniques Section 2 Rise of paper mills Emergence of AI-generated images Section 3 Raw data Section 1 Image integrity screening at jou. [...] Image manipulation in Photoshop – Solarizing images Beautification and processing mistakes Inaccurate reporting of experimental data • Splicing Western blots • Over-contrasting Beautification and processing mistakes Inaccurate reporting of experimental data • Consistency of processing • Cleaning up background with the eraser tool • Movin. [...] Paper mills COPE describes paper mills as “profit oriented, unofficial and potentially illegal organizations that produce and sell fraudulent manuscripts that seem to resemble genuine research.” Paper mills circumvent journal security by doing two things: manipulating identities of the participants in the publishing process, and fabricating content that gets published. [...] Without it, paper mills and other schemes will continue to fill journals with fabricated content, and damage society’s trust in peer review and journal publications. [...] FEBS Letters (2015) Yu et al, PLoS ONE (2016) retracted retracted The long noncoding RNA CASC2 inhibits tumorigenesis through modulating the expression of PTEN by targeting miR-18a-5p in esophageal carcinoma Experimental Cell Research (2017) doi: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2017.09.037 Retracted in 2018 Credit: Hoya camphorifolia Myricetin exerts anti-proliferative, anti-invasive, and pro-apoptotic effects on.