Research_
Publication and Research Integrity in Medical Research (PRIMeR)
Improving the reliability of the medical research literature
Our group leads research and advocacy to improve the reliability of the research literature and reduce research waste. We advocate for transformed research publication standards and error correction capacity.
Based at the in Camperdown, the PRIMeR group forms part of the Cancertheme of the School of Medical Sciences.
We are also part of the Truth Decay node of the Charles Perkins Centre.
Research areas include:
- Prevalence of problematic biomedical research papers across research fields and journal types
- Impact of problematic papers through citation analysis
- Textual analysis of problematic papers
- NHMRC Ideas Grant APP1184263, “Prevalence and impact of fraudulent cancer research publications targeting the functions of human genes", JA Byrne, C Labbé, A Capes-Davis, 2020-2024
- NHMRC Ideas Grant APP2029249, “Problematic articles and literature reviews in molecular cancer research", JA Byrne, A Barnett, 2024-2026
Please see our recent publications on Professor Jennifer Byrne's academic profile.
The PRIMeR group collaborates with publication and research integrity experts and organizations across Sydney, Australia and internationally. Some of our partners include:
- Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science (AIMOS)
- Northwestern University, USA
- Queensland University of Technology, Qld
- Retraction Watch, USA
- ScreenIT group, Germany
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France
- Professor Jennifer Byrne: Research group leader
- Ms Danielle Oste,Research associate
- Mr Pranjuan Pathmendra: PhD candidate
- Ms Annie Whamond: PhD candidate
Former group members
- Mr Yasunori Park: Research associate
- Retraction Watch “”, 19 January, 2017
- Nature News, “”, 20 November, 2017
- , 19 December, 2017
- Sydney Morning Herald, “”, 19 December 2017
- Post-Truth Initiative Podcast “J”, March, 2018
- Undark Magazine, “”, 2 April, 2018
- republished by The Atlantic, “" 3 April, 2018
- Shirtloads of Science Podcast, “”, 20 May, 2018
- Australasian Human Research Ethics Consultancy Services, "", 17 July, 2019
- Elsevier Connect, "", 19 July, 2019
- The Wiley Network, “”, 26 August, 2020
- Retraction Watch, “” 01 March, 2021
- Nature News, “”, 23 March, 2021
- Times Higher Education, “”, 08 April, 2021
- Nature News, "", 04 August 2021
- The Scientist "", 01 September, 2021
- IASLC Lung Cancer news “”, 17 September 2021
- Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) Insight+, “”, 07 February 2022
- Spectrum, “”, 15 June 2022
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, “Gefährliche Fälschung”, English translation: “”, 09 August 2022
- La Presse+, “Une industrie de fraudes scientifiques de masse.” English translation: “”, 8 January 2023
- Wired, “”, 18 January 2023
- Nature News, “”, 10 February 2023
- The Economist, “”, 22 February 2023
- Nature News, “", 31 May 2023
Contact
Address
-
NSW Health Statewide Biobank Professor Marie Bashir Centre Missenden Road Camperdown