Leslie D. McIntosh

VP, Research Integrity

London, UK

Dr. Leslie McIntosh is the VP of Research Integrity at Digital Science and dedicates her work to improving research, reducing disinformation, and increasing trust in science. As an academic turned entrepreneur, she founded Ripeta in 2017 to improve research quality and integrity. Now part of Digital Science, the Ripeta algorithms lead in detecting trust markers of research manuscripts. She works with governments, publishers, institutions, and companies around the globe to improve research and scientific decision-making. She has given hundreds of talks, including to the US-NIH, NASA, and World Congress on Research Integrity, and consulted with the US, Canadian, and European governments. Dr. McIntosh’s work was the most-read RetractionWatch post of 2022.

Publications

The Challenge of the Effective Implementation of FAIR Principles in Biomedical Research
Usability Testing
Electronic nutritional intake assessment in patients with urolithiasis: A decision impact analysis
Precisely and Persistently Identifying and Citing Arbitrary Subsets of Dynamic Data
Automating Quality Checks in the Publishing Process
Precisely and Persistently Identifying and Citing Arbitrary Subsets of Dynamic Data
Funding Agency Policy Additional Materials - Methods
Advancing equity and integrity in research
The State of Trust & Integrity in Research
Guiding principles for technical infrastructure to support computable biomedical knowledge
Ten Simple Rules for Post-Pandemic Preprinting
RipetaScore: Measuring the Quality, Transparency, and Trustworthiness of a Scientific Work
Summary of second annual MCBK public meeting: Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge—A movement to accelerate translation of knowledge into action
Repeat: a framework to assess empirical reproducibility in biomedical research
Lessons Learned; Administrative and Policy Issues and Solutions; Complete your Plan
Incorporating Data Citation in a Biomedical Repository: An Implementation Use Case
Sustainability considerations for clinical and translational research informatics infrastructure
Validation of a next-generation sequencing assay for clinical molecular oncology.
Real-time assessment of community health needs and concerns.
Automating the pre-review of research
Using Data Curation Profiles to Design the Datastar Dataset Registry
It's Just (Academic) Business: A Use Case in Improving Informatics Operations with Business Intelligence.
Precisely and Persistently Identifying and Citing Arbitrary Subsets of Dynamic Data
The State of Open Data 2020
Three Ontologies to Define Phenotype Measurement Data
caTissue Suite to OpenSpecimen: Developing an extensible, open source, web-based biobanking management system
Tobacco Use Prevalence and Smoking Cessation Pharmacotherapy Prescription Patterns Among Hospitalized Patients by Medical Specialty
Reproducibility and reporting practices in COVID-19 preprint manuscripts
An analysis of form and function of a research article between and within publishers and journals