Research Integrity Screening Specialist

Job Title: Research Integrity Screening Specialist

Location: Pune

Reports to: Team Lead, Research Integrity Screening

Job Summary

The Research Integrity Screening Specialist plays a critical role in the pre-publication screening of submissions to resolve all identified integrity concerns. This role must blend a keen eye for detail, resourcefulness in fact-checking, and clear communication skills with our internal and external publication partners.

Responsibilities

• Analyze concerns in submissions flagged by Springer Nature s research integrity technology solution, Screening Hub, applying critical scientific evaluation, manuscript assessment strategies, and strong decision quality to validate concerns, identify false positives, and ensure accurate outcomes to validate flags or remove false positives.
• Conduct detailed manuscript assessments to evaluate flagged cases and decide, according to internal best practices and ensuring decision quality, which concerns can be remediated by the authors before reconsideration, which are false positives indicating that the submission is clear to proceed to next steps, and which are true positives to be actioned for withdrawal or rejection.
• Review re-submissions where concerns have been remediated by authors to ensure compliance with requested changes.
• Manage complexity inherent in this evaluation and decision process, and take an approach that is action-oriented.
• Partner with internal team members and external service providers to assess and address integrity of issues that are flagged and remediation of submissions, demonstrating accountability.
• Communicate concerns, where necessary and determined by protocols and SOPs, to Editors, Publishers, and authors for due consideration, according to relevant Springer Nature policies, COPE guidelines, and industry best practice.

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