Join us on 19 February 2025 at 14h00 CAT for this exciting 2 hour webinar. Register here.

Questionable scientific trends, such predatory publishing, paper mills, retracted research, falsified data, weak peer review practices, plagiarism, AI generated content, and ultimately citation pollution have the potential to corrupt academic evaluation systems, hurt professional disciplines, and lead to wastage of resources. Many emerging researchers are unknowingly caught up in these practices, simply because they are unaware of the impact of questionable science or they do not know how to avoid citing questionable research in their own research.

This 2-hour workshop looks at questionable scientific trends, the impact of questionable science and citation pollution, and how to avoid getting caught up in these unscrupulous practices. It addresses the following key question: “Are you reading the right literature safely?”.

For more information, email karlien.potgieter@mandela.ac.za.