Over the last five years, the Association for Computing Machinery has been dealing with a rapid rise in allegations of research misconduct that have created a backlog of cases to investigate.

The publisher has a committee to analyze claims, but with only a small group of volunteers, cases can take a year or more to resolve, said Scott Delman, ACM’s director of publications. To address allegations faster and with a sharper focus, the association is hiring a director of research integrity, a new role for the publisher.

The new role comes after several large-scale retractions by ACM due to misconduct claims, including the removal of an entire conference proceeding that included at least 26 papers, and another conference proceeding with more than 300 articles. The publisher has come under fire by sleuths in the past for taking years to investigate problematic conference proceedings and for allegedly underreporting retractions.

Source https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/02/association-computing-machinery-society-acm-research-integrity-role/

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