(Re?)Building trust in research integrity

Abstract

This article is based on a session with the same title from the 2023 APE (Academic Publishing in Europe) conference, in which the authors discussed the challenges and opportunities for the scholarly communications community to improve trust in the quality of research it funds, publishes, and uses. They provide here a brief summary of the discussion, including: how much trouble is research integrity in? Who should be responsible for addressing it? Do we need less technology or more? Is better peer review the answer; if so, what does that look like? What other aspects of the research process should we be considering? Does the existing research infrastructure support these changes, or is further investment needed?