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RPN Live 2025: Speakers back collective action to tackle integrity challenges including problematic incentives
Research is facing major integrity challenges, with some of the prevailing incentives in the sector presenting “a global systemic problem that requires a global systemic solution”, attendees at an event hosted by Research Professional News heard.
Nandita Quaderi (pictured second from left), a senior vice-president at Clarivate* and editor-in-chief of its Web of Science data platform, said at the RPN Live event on 3 April that these problematic incentives include pressures on researchers to publish and the economic models of some scholarly publishers favouring quantity over quality. Such drivers are in place…