Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, liebe Studierende,
Wir freuen uns sehr, dass wir für den ersten Vortrag der Open Science-Reihe in diesem Jahr Elisabeth Bik gewinnen konnten. Sie wird am 24. Januar um 15 Uhr über “Errors and Misconduct in Biomedical Research – how can Open Science help?” sprechen.
Elisabeth Bik ist eine Bildforensik-Detektivin, die ihren Job in der Industrie aufgegeben hat, um biomedizinische Artikel, welche Fehler oder bedenkliche Daten enthalten, zu suchen und zu melden. Sie hat 20 000 Artikel in 40 Fachzeitschriften systematisch gescannt und festgestellt, dass etwa 4 % davon unsachgemäß duplizierte Bilder enthielten. In ihrem Vortrag wird sie ihre Arbeit vorstellen und Beispiele für Fehler oder Fehlverhalten in der Forschung aufzeigen. Darüber hinaus wird sie zeigen, wie wissenschaftliche Arbeiten, die Anlass zur Sorge geben, gemeldet werden können und wie Zeitschriften und Institutionen mit solchen Vorwürfen umgehen. Schließlich wird sie darauf eingehen, wie Open Science dazu beitragen kann, Daten besser zugänglich und reproduzierbar zu machen und Fehler und – in gewissem Maße – Fehlverhalten zu verhindern.
Der Vortrag wird auf Englisch gehalten und findet über WebEx statt. Bei Interesse, bitte bei der Open Science Initiative melden!
Wir freuen uns, Sie zu sehen!
Die Open Science Initiative Lübeck
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Dear colleagues and students,
First of all, we would like to wish you all a good start to the New Year!
We are very pleased that we were able to win Elisabeth Bik for the first lecture of the Open Science series this year. She will speak on January 24 at 3 p.m. on “Errors and Misconduct in Biomedical Research – how can Open Science help?”.
Elisabeth Bik is an image forensics detective who left her paid job in industry to search for and report biomedical articles that contain errors or data of concern. She has done a systematic scan of 20,000 papers in 40 journals and found that about 4% of these contained inappropriately duplicated images. In her talk, she will present her work and show several types of inappropriately duplicated images and other examples of errors or research misconduct. In addition, she will show how to report scientific papers of concern, and how journals and institutions handle such allegations. Finally, she will address how Open Science can help in making data more accessible and reproducible, preventing errors, and – to some extent – misconduct.
The talk will be held in English and will take place in WebEx. You will find the link at the end of this mail.
We look forward to seeing you!
Open Science Initiative Lübeck
Abstract
Science builds upon science. Even after peer-review and publication, science papers could still contain images or other data of concern. If not addressed post-publication, papers containing incorrect or even falsified data could lead to wasted time and money spent by other researchers trying to reproduce those results. Open Science can play a big role in preventing errors, but might not be able to prevent all cases of misconduct. Several high-profile science misconduct cases have been described, but many more cases remain undetected. Elisabeth Bik is an image forensics detective who left her paid job in industry to search for and report biomedical articles that contain errors or data of concern. She has done a systematic scan of 20,000 papers in 40 journals and found that about 4% of these contained inappropriately duplicated images. In her talk, she will present her work and show several types of inappropriately duplicated images and other examples of errors or research misconduct. In addition, she will show how to report scientific papers of concern, and how journals and institutions handle such allegations. Finally, she will address how Open Science can help in making data more accessible and reproducible, preventing errors, and – to some extent – misconduct.
Short Bio
Elisabeth Bik, PhD is a Dutch-American microbiologist who has worked for 15 years at Stanford University and 2 years in industry. Since 2019, she is a science integrity volunteer and consultant who scans the biomedical literature for images or other data of concern. She has reported over 7,000 scientific papers, and her work resulted in over 1,000 retractions and another 1,000 corrections. For her work in science communication and exposing research misconduct, she received the 2021 John Maddox Prize.