NEXT Event
The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication
From 10-14 November 2025
Prof Dorothy Bishop
University of Oxford, UK
Dorothy Bishop 
recently retired as Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at the University of Oxford, where she conducted full-time research, funded by Wellcome Trust and ERC. She is an honorary fellow of St John’s College Oxford, and the British Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences. She resigned as a Fellow of the Royal Society in November 2024. She has published substantial books and papers on the nature and causes of developmental language disorder, focusing on psycholinguistics, neurobiology and genetics. Beyond psychology, she is active in the field of open science and research reproducibility, and in retirement has taken up academic fraud-busting. She is active on social media, @deevybee.bsky.social and @deevbee on mastodon.social) and has a popular blog, Bishopblog.
All Sessions by Prof Dorothy Bishop
Research Integrity
November 14, 2025
14:30
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14:50
The virus model of research fraud: integrity requires inoculation, testing, and quarantine
It's generally thought that fraud is rare, and science is self-correcting, but is that true? Sadly, there is increasingly evidence of widespread fraud in science, ranging from individual bad actors who build a glowing reputation on faked or manipulated data, to industrial scale fraud from so-called “paper mills”, who charge for authorship and/or citations. I’ll discuss why it is urgent to tackle these, with various measures comparable to testing for a virus, tracing contact, quarantine and vaccination. I list some red flags that aid paper mill detection, and show how open science practices are important to counteract fakery in science.
15:10
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15:20