Scientific fraud and misconduct are increasingly relevant as a research topic in various areas such as scientometrics or the ethics of research. From the replication crisis to massive retractions, through fraudulent use of LLMs, or ‘article mills’, this phenomenon has given rise to numerous lines of research, including ‘forensic bibliometrics’, and different developments in research policies such as the movement for responsible evaluation and research. The increasing appearance of cases of scientific fraud has also generated a growing volume of news in the general press, which facilitates the discrediting of scientific research as a legitimate means of obtaining reliable and valid results. In this talk, Jorge Mañana Rodríguez, a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the CSIC, will address issues such as the risks in the use of bibliometric indicators, citation network analysis and detection of spurious patterns, the main features of the replication crisis, hyperauthorship as scientific misconduct and its detection, publication models and predatory journals, retractions, their impact and the process of identifying and characterizing them.
Jorge Mañana Rodríguez (Ph.D. in Documentation from UC3M, 2013) is a tenured scientist at the Institute of Philosophy of the CSIC. He has developed his research activity at the CSIC, UC3M, and UCM and specializes in quantitative analysis applied to the study of scientific publications and research evaluation.
Date and Location
Thursday, October 13, 2025, 12 AM
Free entry until capacity is reached
Room 3 of ITEFI