Safeguarding the Open Data Ecosystem and Regulating the Misuse of Public Health Datasets in an Era of Rapidly Scaled Research Production - PubMed
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- Exploitation of open-access health datasets by paper mills and AI-assisted workflows threatens clinical evidence integrity.
- Fabricated analyses of datasets like FAERS, NHANES, and Global Burden of Disease Study can contaminate systematic reviews and distort prescribing behavior.
- Restricting access to open datasets could disproportionately affect clinicians and researchers in resource-limited settings.
- Proposed eight-measure framework aims to safeguard open data ecosystem through transparency, expert oversight, and infrastructure.
- Measures include open peer review, mandatory domain-expert endorsements, and a centralized publication registry.
- Framework seeks to preserve open science and FAIR data practices while addressing misuse.