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IMAGE INTEGRITY

Jana Christopher

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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

C. S. Lewis

Image-Integrity offers a comprehensive service helping scientists and journals

to protect and safeguard the published record

Screening

of scientific images

Regular screening of manuscript figures for journals as part of the publication workflow

Pre-submission screening of figures as a service to authors

Investigations

of potential misconduct

Co-operration with scientific institutes and journals

Investigation of image manipulation in the published literature - assessing the validity of claims of illegitimate image manipulation

Consultancy,

training and coaching

Training for editorial staff

Seminars for PhD students and young scientists as part of their research integrity education

I have worked as an Image Data Integrity Analyst since 2011.

Read my recent articles:

Systematic fabrication of scientific images revealed

Digital magic, or the dark arts of the 21^st century—how can journals and peer reviewers detect manuscripts and publications from paper mills?

Since leaving EMBO Press in 2015, clients include

eLife Sciences
The Royal Society
Springer Nature
Freiburg University
KULeuven
Nanyang Technical Universit and A*Star University, Singapore
Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds
The Journal of Hepatology
FEBS Press
The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)
International Journal of Cancer at DKFZ

During the 4th World Congress on Research Integrity in Rio de Janeiro in June 2015, I spoke to Nature News about my work:

read interview

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