Research Integrity Specialist
Job Summary
To support the Publication Ethics department, we are looking for a proactive Research Integrity Specialist. This is a full-time permanent position based in our office in Belgrade.
Responsibilities:
- Evaluating and responding to a variety of ethics issues, including assessment of activities by authors, reviewers, editors, and Special Issues.
- Supporting the assessment, identification and resolution of issues relating to plagiarism, overlap or duplication, conflicts of interest, data manipulation or reproducability, authorship disputes, peer review manipulation and figure manipulation/duplication.
- Providing pathways forward and facilitating the correction of the scientific literature
- Liaising on complex cases or issues across multiple journals and/or involving multiple stakeholders, both internal and external.
- Communicating accurately and diplomatically, and supporting editorial staff in communication
- Supporting exchange and implementation of best practice with colleagues
- Carrying out background research and presenting findings or making recommendations
- Producing documents, reports and presentations, and supporting the implementation of proposals
- Product development in close liaison with data and AI teams
Requirements:
- Master’s or PhD degree
- Minimum of 2 years proven experience in Research Integrity at a Publishing House
- Familiarity with best practice guidelines and principles of publication ethics as expressed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
- Excellent communication skills in both written and spoken English
- Creative and dynamic team player with excellent interpersonal skills and an eye for details
- Good time management and organization skills
If you are interested in this job opportunity we are looking forward to receive your complete application documents (CV, diploma, work certificates).
What we offer
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Contributing to the academic community
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Mentorship program and training opportunities for shaping and realizing your career goals in the scientific publishing industry
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Various opportunities for professional development in an international company
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Competitive and performance-based bonuses
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Private health insurance & team building activities
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Flexible working hours
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Possibility to spend time abroad and collaborate with colleagues in other MDPI offices
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Working in a collaborative, diverse, and socially responsible team
Life & Work at MDPI
We are committed to fostering a supportive and respectful working environment, as well as building friendships that extend beyond the workplace.
We are a young and dynamic team of over 720 people working in Serbia, brought together by our shared passion for science and academic publishing.
Encouraging people to share knowledge and constantly learn from one another, while being open-minded, is a part of our success story.
About MDPI Serbia
A pioneer in scholarly open access publishing, MDPI has supported academic communities since 1996. Our mission is to foster open scientific exchange in all forms across all disciplines. We operate more than 370 diverse, peer-reviewed, open access journals and serve scholars from around the world to ensure the latest research is openly and quickly available. MDPI is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland with additional offices in Europe, Asia, and North America.
MDPI Serbia was established in 2016 to support the rapid global expansion of MDPI. Over the course of 6 years, we opened two offices in Belgrade and one additional office in Novi Sad. With over 720 employees in our 3 Serbian offices, we are dedicated to ensuring that high-quality research is made available as quickly as possible in different fields of science. We also support sustainability projects, with sustainability as a key theme in many journals and through the MDPI Sustainability Foundation.
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