Reinventing and Rethinking Research Integrity Processes in an AI-Driven World

How journals can adapt policies, workflows, and oversight for the next generation of scholarly publishing

WEBINAR: Wednesday July 22, 2026 at 11:00am ET

Panelists:

Duncan MacRae, Director, Research Integrity, KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd.
David Haber, Publishing Operations Director, American Society for Microbiology

The rapid adoption of AI throughout the research and publishing ecosystem is creating new opportunities—but also new challenges for research integrity. From AI-generated text and images to increasingly sophisticated forms of misconduct, journals are being asked to safeguard the scholarly record while managing growing submission volumes, limited resources, and evolving community expectations.

In this webinar, Duncan MacRae, Director of Research Integrity at KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL), and David Haber, Publishing Operations Director at the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), will explore how journals can systematically rethink their research integrity programs for an AI-driven era. Rather than treating integrity as a single checkpoint, the discussion will examine how publishers can build a more holistic, lifecycle-based approach that incorporates early risk identification, pre-acceptance verification, and post-publication oversight.

The session will include a real-world case study from ASM, highlighting how editorial teams are adapting policies, workflows, screening practices, and governance structures to address emerging risks while maintaining efficient author, reviewer, and editor experiences.

Speaker Bios:

Duncan MacRae

As Director, Research Integrity, Duncan is responsible for designing, implementing and advancing KGL’s global framework for research integrity. He oversees the protocols, systems, and investigative processes that support KGL’s editorial teams in safeguarding publication quality and trust. Duncan began his publishing career managing society publications and subsequently spent over a decade at Wolters Kluwer – the final 4 years as the Director, Editorial Strategy and Publishing Policy, leading peer review and research integrity initiatives across the Lippincott and Medknow portfolios. He is a frequent guest speaker and author, addressing a variety of subjects that impact the publishing community. Based outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Duncan holds a BA in History from the University of Texas at Austin.

David Haber

David Haber is the Director of Publishing Operations at the American Society for Microbiology, which publishes 15 peer-reviewed journals from food microbiology to genomics and the microbiome. He collaborates with a team responsible for all content and publishing activity from submission into the peer review system, through article flow during production, and to eventual publication and distribution online. For the past twenty years, he has held a wide range of positions in the STM ecosystem, from copyediting manuscripts to typesetting articles, from digital conversion modeling to solution architecture for publishing support systems, from old-school, print workflow management to speedy OA publication models.