Author: Elliott Lumb
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Tiago Barros joins Signals as Founding Member
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We’re excited to announce that Tiago Barros has joined the Signals team as Founding Member. Tiago will bring his expertise in publishing, peer review and creating products for publishers and researchers to our team. Previously, Tiago had different roles in publishing and tech startups, including VP of H1 Connect at H1, Managing Director of Faculty…
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Signals Lead Analyst, Christos Petrou, guest post in Scholarly Kitchen
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Signals Lead Analyst, Christos Petrou, has written a guest post for the Scholarly Kitchen on retractions and research misconduct. A few key takeaways include: Read the full article in The Scholarly Kitchen:
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Christos Petrou joins Signals as Lead Analyst
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We’re pleased to announce that Christos Petrou will be joining Signals, alongside founders Andrew Preston and Elliott Lumb, in our mission to restore trust in research. Christos will join Signals as Lead Analyst. His deep understanding of scholarly communication and analytical expertise will help us identify new signals and enable us to provide publishers with…
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Correcting the record: retracting papermill articles
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In 2023, the scholarly literature had the highest number of retractions ever seen in a single year, driven by over 8000 retractions at Hindawi. The large set of retractions were fraudulent articles created by papermills and published after Wiley acquired Hindawi in 2021. The consequences of this have been huge for Wiley, and the industry…