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Elisabeth Bik: Image manipulation in biomedical research
DataViz Academy is a seminar series organized by Helena Jambor at MSNZ (see this PDF schedule and check this website’s calendar regularly for updates).
DIPP students are all welcome to attend. Those who attend all seminars will receive a certificate of seminar attendance from DIGS-BB/MSNZ. If you plan to attend the full series, please drop Arantxa an e-mail.
Dr. Elisabeth Bik is an expert in biomedical image integrity, founder of the blog Science Integrity Digest, and consults research foundations worldwide.
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Meeting ID: 858 4331 4580
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Don’t miss the opportunity to talk to Elisabeth Bit after the talk. Helena will be happy to allocate a slot for those of you who are interested.
Some further background to Elisabeth Bik’s work
Science builds upon science. Even after peer-review and publication, science papers could still contain images or other data of concern. If not addressed post-publication, papers containing incorrect or even falsified data could lead to wasted time and money spent by other researchers trying to reproduce those results. Several high-profile science misconduct cases have been described, but many more cases remain undetected. Elisabeth Bik is an image forensics detective who left her paid job in industry to search for and report biomedical articles that contain errors or data of concern. She has done a systematic scan of 20,000 papers in 40 journals and found that about 4% of these contained inappropriately duplicated images. In her talk she will present her work and show several types of inappropriately duplicated images – ranging from likely errors to those with an intention-to-mislead. In addition, she will show how to report scientific papers of concern, and how journals and institutions handle such allegations.
Seminal Publication
The Prevalence of Inappropriate Image Duplication in Biomedical Research Publications
Elisabeth M Bik, Arturo Casadevall, Ferric C Fang
mBio, 2016 Jun 7;7(3):e00809-16, doi: 10.1128/mBio.00809-16
Dr. Elisabeth Bik – Short Bio
Elisabeth Bik is a Dutch microbiologist living in California, who has worked for 15 years at Stanford University and 2 years in industry. Since 2019, she is a science integrity volunteer and occasional consultant, who scans the biomedical literature for images or other data of concern and has reported over 4,000 scientific papers