Publish Sound Science: Presentation Slides

Publish sound science: Educating authors on the value of Image integrity in Scholarly Publishing, Aashi Chaturvedi, Senior Ethics Specialist, American Society for Microbiology

As scholarly publishing grows in scale, pace, and its use of technology, so does the responsibility of scholarly publishers, like American Society for Microbiology (ASM), to educate its authors to publish sound science in this advancing world. Image integrity is fundamental to establish and maintain the trust in data and figures presented in a study. At ASM, figures have been routinely prescreened in accepted manuscripts to ensure they are of publishable quality and free of integrity concerns. Recently, ASM started a pilot program with an AI-based software called ‘ImageTwin’ that detects image integrity issues, primarily image duplication in the submitted manuscripts or published articles being screened. In this presentation, the speaker will discuss their observations and key takeaways from this pilot program, including the challenges they encountered toward achieving their ultimate goal to publish original, trustworthy, and reproducible data.

Aashi Chaturvedi, Ph.D. is the Senior Ethics Specialist at American Society for Microbiology. She is responsible for assisting with timely resolution of allegations of potential research and/or publication misconduct in accordance with ASM's publishing ethics policies and procedures. Chaturvedi is a trained cellular and molecular biologist and biochemist. She received her Ph.D. in Oncological Sciences from the University of Utah and pursued her post-doctoral training at Masonic Cancer Center with University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities area. When not pursuing publishing ethics, she enjoys painting and traveling.