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OmnipubBeyond Integrity: Why Quality Is the Next Frontier for the Research Record
A Platform Strategies 2026 panel on what happens when a paper clears every integrity check and is still bad science.
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About this event
A paper can pass every integrity check and still be bad science. That gap is where the research record is most exposed right now.
The tools built over the last two decades were designed to catch fraud: suspicious co-authorships, citation rings, fabricated data, AI-generated text. Useful signals, all of them. But clearing the fraud bar is not the same as being good science, and with AI-assisted submissions up 30 percent, the volume arriving at that bar has never been higher.
As large language models become the first place researchers meet the literature, what clears the bar does not just sit in the record. It gets ingested and surfaced as fact. Quality control at the point of publication becomes quality control for everything downstream.
In this Platform Strategies 2026 panel, Cashmere co-founder Jonathan Woahn joins Dawn Melley of IEEE and Miriam Maus of IOP Publishing, with Dustin Smith of Hum moderating, to make the case for quality as the next line publishers have to defend.
You will leave with a clearer view of where integrity tooling stops, what a quality signal would actually have to measure, and what publishers can put in place before the models decide for them.
Speakers
Jonathan Woahn
CXO & Co-founder, Cashmere
Jonathan Woahn is CXO and co-founder of Cashmere, where he bridges product, customer experience, and market strategy. He drives the company's thought leadership on how premium content is valued, protected, and licensed as AI becomes the primary way readers meet published work.
Dawn Melley
Senior Director, Publishing Operations, IEEE
Dawn Melley leads publishing operations at IEEE, where she has spent over 20 years in leadership roles across the Publications group, directing the publishing services behind IEEE's periodicals. Before IEEE she held editorial leadership positions at Reed Elsevier and Thomson Reuters.
Miriam Maus
Chief Publishing Officer, IOP Publishing
Miriam Maus is Chief Publishing Officer at IOP Publishing and a member of its board, responsible for the publishing and researcher engagement strategy across more than 110 journals and book series. She has 25 years in academic publishing, previously at Blackwell and Wiley, and sits on the STM Association board and its Research Integrity Committee.
Dustin Smith
CEO & Co-founder (moderator), Hum
Dustin Smith is co-founder and CEO of Hum, where he leads the product vision behind its AI suite for publishers. He has more than 15 years at the intersection of scholarly publishing and technology, and became CEO in 2025 after five years building Hum's audience and content intelligence products.