Whitepaper
Authorship integrity: A guide for publishers
Explore how rising submission volumes, global collaboration and AI are changing authorship integrity — and how publishers can respond, strengthen trust and keep human judgement at the centre.
Can your authorship checks keep pace?
You’re handling rising submission volumes and more complex integrity risks. Manual checks can make it hard to spot fabricated identities, paper-mill activity and unusual networks. Left unresolved, these gaps can weaken trust in the scholarly record.
We’re moving away from implicit trust toward processes that secure and underpin trust through robust policies and transparent systems.”
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This whitepaper is for you if…
You work in research integrity, publication ethics, editorial operations or scholarly publishing. It explores the challenge of assessing authors, reviewers and editors at scale while navigating paper mills, fabricated identities, AI and complex collaboration networks — and how to strengthen trust without removing human judgement.
What you’ll learn
Understand why authorship is foundational to trust and how the research integrity landscape is changing. Explore expert perspectives, emerging indicators and practical approaches to verification, including a case study from Sage Publishing.
The whitepaper also examines how technology can surface evidence and support more consistent workflows while keeping final decisions with people.
Contributors
Drawing on insights from:
- Adya Misra — Director of Research Integrity, Sage Publishing
- Anna Abalkina — Research Fellow and Research Integrity Expert, Free University of Berlin
- Jennifer Wright — Head of Publication Ethics and Research Integrity, Cambridge University Press
- Joerg Sixt — Team Lead, Dashboards, Dimensions, Digital Science
- Laura Etchells — Head of Research Integrity, Emerald Publishing
- Leslie McIntosh — Vice President of Research Integrity and Security, Digital Science
More insights
Safeguard research integrity
Digital Science launches Dimensions Citation Check API for self-citation risk screening
Research manipulation mapped in new Forensic Scientometrics (FoSci) report
