Ivan Oransky

American medical researcher and journalist

Ivan Oransky is an American physician, medical researcher and journalist, known for his advocacy of scientific integrity through improved tracking and institutional reforms.[1] His opinions and statistics on scientific misconduct have been described in the media.[2][3][4][5]

## Education and career[edit]

Oransky received a bachelor's degree at Harvard, where he was executive editor of The Harvard Crimson. He obtained M.D. at the New York University School of Medicine, where he was the editorial director of MedPage Today.[2][6][7]

Oransky has been a vice president of editorial at Medscape, executive editor of Reuters Health, managing editor, online, of Scientific American, and deputy editor of The Scientist.[8] From 2017 until 2021, he served as president of the Association of Health Care Journalists.[9][10]

Oransky co-founded Retraction Watch, a blog reporting scientific retractions, is a writer in residence at New York University's Arthur Carter Journalism Institute, and Editor in Chief of The Transmitter.

## Awards[edit]

In 2015, Oransky was awarded the John P. McGovern Award for excellence in biomedical communication from the American Medical Writers Association.[11]

## Publications and public talks[edit]

In 2011, Oransky and Adam Marcus coauthored an article in Nature pointing out that the peer review process for scholarly publications continues long after the publication time.[12] In 2014, Oransky coauthored an article in Nature that described how several authors were caught reviewing their own papers.[13]

In 2012, Oransky gave a talk at TEDMED titled "Are we overmedicalized?".[14]

In 2018, Oransky and Marcus profiled in Science (magazine) two researchers whose investigative work to find inconsistencies in published data has been instrumental in catalyzing retractions.[15]

In August 2023, Oransky and Marcus coauthored op-eds in Scientific American[16] and The Guardian.[17] In the wake of the resignation of Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne, they suggested that scientific misconduct is more common than is reported. They also assess that, despite recent scandals involving research misconduct, the academic community is not interested in exposing wrongdoing and scientific errors. However, all members of the academic community are responsible for the delays and lack of action.

## References[edit]

1. ^ Belluz, Julia (December 20, 2014). "Science journals screw up hundreds of times each year. This guy keeps track of every mistake". Vox.
2. ^ a b Carey, Benedict (June 15, 2015). "Science, Now Under Scrutiny Itself". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 17 June 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
3. ^ Yang, Yuan; Zhang, Archie (June 18, 2017). "China launches crackdown on academic fraud". Financial Times.
4. ^ Marcus, Amy Dockser (December 15, 2022). "Stanford President's Research Draws Concern From Scientific Journals". The Wall Street Journal.
5. ^ Jack, Andrew (July 31, 2023). "'Open science' advocates warn of widespread academic fraud". Financial Times.
6. ^ "Straddling medicine and journalism, a former resident keeps an eye on the science press". Yale Medicine Magazine. 2014.
7. ^ "Research integrity in the COVID-19 era: Insights from Retraction Watch co-founder Ivan Oransky". thepublicationplan.com. 17 March 2021.
8. ^ "Staff Profile : Ivan Oransky". the-scientist.com. Retrieved September 3, 2023.
9. ^ "About Ivan Oransky". Retraction Watch. Retrieved September 2, 2023.
10. ^ "Ivan Oransky, MD". Harvard School of Public Health. Retrieved September 2, 2023.
11. ^ "AMWA Award_Recipients". American Medical Writers Association. Retrieved September 2, 2023.
12. ^ Marcus, Adam; Oransky, Ivan (21 December 2011). "The paper is not sacred". Nature. 480: 449–450.`{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
13. ^ Ferguson, Cat; Marcus, Adam; Oransky, Ivan (26 November 2014). "The peer-review scam". Nature. 515: 480–482.`{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
14. ^ Ivan Oransky at TED
15. ^ Marcus, Adam; Oransky, Ivan (14 February 2018). "Meet the 'data thugs' out to expose shoddy and questionable research". Science.
16. ^ Oransky, Ivan; Marcus, Adam (August 1, 2023). "Science Corrects Itself, Right? A Scandal at Stanford Says It Doesn't". Scientific American.
17. ^ Oransky, Ivan; Marcus, Adam (August 9, 2023). "There's far more scientific fraud than anyone wants to admit". The Guardian.