Publication and Research Integrity in Medical Research (PRIMeR)

• 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 “What turned a cancer researcher into a literature watchdog?”, 19 January, 2017
  
• Nature News, “Online software spots genetic errors in cancer papers”, 20 November, 2017
  
• Nature’s 10 for 2017, 19 December, 2017
• Sydney Morning Herald, “Sydney cancer scientist Jennifer Byrne named as one of 10 people who matter in science by Nature”, 19 December 2017
• Post-Truth Initiative Podcast “Jennifer Byrne on preserving the trust that scientists and the public need to have in each other”, March, 2018
• Undark Magazine, “For Watchdog Scientists, Using Software to Fight Dubious Cancer Research”, 2 April, 2018
• republished by The Atlantic, “The Cancer Researcher Catching Scientific Fraud at Rapid Speed" 3 April, 2018
  
• Shirtloads of Science Podcast, “Top 10 researcher in the World”, 20 May, 2018
• Australasian Human Research Ethics Consultancy Services, "The F word, or how to fight fires in the research literature", 17 July, 2019
  
• Elsevier Connect, "Meet the woman who's tracking down systematic research fraud", 19 July, 2019
• The Wiley Network, “How can editors detect manuscripts and publications from paper mills?”, 26 August, 2020
  
• Retraction Watch, “What happened when a group of sleuths flagged more than 30 papers with errors?” 01 March, 2021
• Nature News, “The fight against fake-paper factories that churn out sham science”, 23 March, 2021
  
• Times Higher Education, “Journals fail to take action over ‘fatally flawed’ experiments”, 08 April, 2021
• Nature News, "Errors in genetic sequences mar hundreds of studies", 04 August 2021
  
• The Scientist "When researchers sound the alarm on problematic papers", 01 September, 2021
  
• IASLC Lung Cancer news “Question Literature’s Face Value”, 17 September 2021
• Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) Insight+, “Research fraud: guilty until proven innocent?”, 07 February 2022
• Spectrum, “Data irregularities surface for study of microRNAs in autism”, 15 June 2022
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, “Gefährliche Fälschung”, English translation: “Dangerous Fakes”, 09 August 2022
• La Presse+, “Une industrie de fraudes scientifiques de masse.” English translation: “An industry of mass scientific fraud”, 8 January 2023
  
• Wired, “Scientific Fraud Is Slippery to Catch-but Easier to Combat”, 18 January 2023
• Nature News, “Highly cited genetics studies found to contain sequence errors”, 10 February 2023
• The Economist, “There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research”, 22 February 2023
• Nature News, “AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research", 31 May 2023