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The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG) is a constantly-expanding resource for performing post-publication peer review. https://cosig.net

Sal Sleuthmander, a Chinese giant salamander, sports a conical birthday hat and gazes appreciatively over his cake with a 1 candle.
COSIG: The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides Newest version available at cosig.net!
The COSIG team stands beaming in front of our poster
Sal Sleuthmander (a floppy Chinese Giant Salamander) were a pink polkadot deerstalker, wields a pink magnifying glass, and stands next to a basket of eggs
COSIG: The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides Newest version available at cosig.net!
COSIG: The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides Newest version available at cosig.net!
An inquisitive cartoon Chinese giant salamander wears a conical "2026" party hat. Multicolored fireworks explode in the background. He wields a magnifying glass and copy of COSIG.
Sal Sleuthmander (a chinese giant salamander) looks curious and wet as he peers through a magnifying glass. He holds a copy of COSIG adorned with a red bow.
Solal, Yagmur and Reese stand in front of a Christmas tree and a staircase and smile at the camera.
New guide: Extracting tabular data from an article cosig.net
A mottled gray Chinese giant salamander wearing a deerstalker peers into a magnifying glass. He holds a copy of COSIG in his right hand (foot? limb? idk).
COSIG: The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides Newest version available at cosig.net!
The new landing page for COSIG, available at cosig.net. It reads: Anyone can do post-publication peer review. Anyone can be a steward of the scientific literature. Anyone can do forensic metascience. Anyone can sleuth. However, investigating the integrity of the published scientific literature often requires domain-specific knowledge that not everyone will have. This open source project is a collection of guides written and maintained by publication integrity experts to distribute this domain-specific knowledge so that others can participate in post-publication peer review. COSIG currently hosts 31 guides and was last updated on 25 September 2025. Guides can be downloaded as individual PDFs. A combined PDF with all guides included can be downloaded here.
COSIG: The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides Newest version available at cosig.net!
Western blot gel images
Yagmur Ozturk and Reese Richardson stand in front of Yagmur's poster titled "Citation Context Analysis of Retracted Articles: Leveraging Retraction Reasons to Track Unreliability in the Citing Literature". They point to COSIG logo on the poster.
Contact information for integrity/ethics teams at major publishers • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, Science, Science Advances, etc.): science_data@aaas.org. • American Chemical Society (ACS): Each journal usually has contact information for a managing editor, usually at managing.editor@<journal-url>.org • American Society for Microbiology: ethics.journals@asmusa.org • British Medical Journal (BMJ): publication.ethics@bmj.com • Elsevier (Elsevier, Cell Press, etc.): ethicsexpert@elsevier.com • Frontiers: research.integrity@frontiersin.org • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): pub-ethics@ieee.org • Karger: publication.ethics@karger.com • MDPI: publication.ethics@mdpi.com • Oxford University Press: journals.ethics@oup.com • PLOS: pub-ethics@plos.org • Rockefeller University Press (Journal of Cell Biology, Life Science Alliance, etc.): integrity@rupress.org • Sage (Sage, Mary-Ann Liebert): publication_ethics@sagepub.com • Springer Nature (Springer, Nature, BMC): ethics.reporting@springernature.com • Taylor & Francis (Taylor & Francis, Dove Medical Press, CRC Press, Routledge): ethics@tandf.co.uk • Thieme: publishingethics@thieme.de • Wiley (Wiley, Hindawi, FEBS Press): researchintegrity@wiley.com
A comparison of the original meta-analysis for Outcome 3 shown in https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004048.pub4 and a corrected meta-analysis. Created by Nanarchaea binnaburra on PubPeer: https://pubpeer.com/publications/16EA56FE44642BA4284D5B02694875
COSIG: Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides Newest version available at cosig.net!
A TEM image of nanoparticles immersed in a fluid. Two regions are circled and labeled SiO2 and Al2O3.
The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG) logo Newest version available at cosig.net!
A diagram describing the vertical line test with mock height data.
The same FTIR spectrum as in the previous post with regions failing the vertical line test highlighted by blue arrows.
A red FTIR spectrum over black and white axes. The trace of the spectrum is quite squiggly.
COSIG: Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides Newest version available at cosig.net!
A black and white EDX spectrum with energy in keV on the x-axis, counts on the y-axis, and peaks labeled with elemental symbols Issues: In increasing order, the lowest energy peaks here should be carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron. The order shown here is nitrogen, oxygen, iron, carbon. Cobalt has no peaks at ∼ 5.9 keV. The nearest expected peak is an escape peak at ∼5.2 keV. Carbon does not have a peak at ∼ 7 keV. Oxygen does not have a peak at ∼ 8 keV. Hydrogen does not have any peaks, let alone one at ∼ 9 keV.
COSIG logo: COSIG (Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides) Now available at cosig.net!