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Elisabeth Bik

Science Integrity Digest
Elisabeth Bik, PhD is a Dutch-American microbiologist who has worked for 15 years at Stanford University and 2 years in industry. Since 2019, she is a science integrity consultant who scans the biomedical literature for images or other data of concern and has found over 8,000 problematic scientific papers. She can often be found discussing science papers on social media, writing for her blog ScienceIntegrityDigest, or searching the biomedical literature for inappropriately duplicated or manipulated photographic images and plagiarized text. Her work has been featured in Nature, Science, the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and The Times (UK). Her work has resulted in over 1,500 retracted and another 1,100 corrected papers. For her work on exposing threats to research integrity, she received the 2021 John Maddox Prize, the 2024 Einstein Foundation Award, and a 2025 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bern.

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