Ivan Oransky, Retraction Watch

Retractions, Post-Publication Peer Review, and Fraud: Scientific Publishing’s Wild West

Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus founded Retraction Watch in 2010. Unbeknownst to them, retractions had grown ten-fold in the previous decade.

Oransky will discuss the reasons for that increase, whether fraud is on the rise, the growth of post-publication peer review, and other trends he and Marcus have seen as they have built a site that is now viewed by 150,000 people per month, and funded by philanthropies including the MacArthur and Arnold Foundations.

Short biography
Ivan Oransky earned a bachelor’s from Harvard, and an MD from the New York University of School of Medicine. He is currently the vice president and global editorial director of MedPage Today. He is a Distinguished Writer In Residence at New York University’s Carter Journalism Institute, where he teaches medical journalism in the Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program, and the vice president of the Association of Health Care Journalists. He has held various posts as journalist and editor. We invite Ivan to talk about research integrity and publishing ethics because Ivan runs the Retraction Watch blog retractionwatch.com together with Adam Marcus.   

Host: Associate professor Frans Mulder, iNANO & Dept. of Chemistry, Aarhus University