An international team of researchers has identified the likely manipulation of citation numbers by research paper mills in high-impact cancer journals. The findings point to an organised campaign to inflate the impact factor of journals in which paper mill papers are published.
Professor Steven McPhail has been awarded an NHMRC grant of $1,491,992.40 for the project, Building AI Launch Pads in Health Services: Accelerating Safe, Scalable, Evidence-Based AI Implementation and Sustainment.
A/Prof Peter Lazzarini, Conjoint Research Fellow (Podiatry) at AusHSI, was presented with the Australian Diabetes Society Jeff Flack Diabetes Data Award at the ADS Annual General Meeting 2026.
Professor William Parsonage, AusHSI clinical director and senior staff cardiologist at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and St Vincent’s, has been announced as new President of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ)
MTPConnect, the Lowitja Institute and the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation have released guidance to help those funding or shaping First Nations health research to achieve long-term impact.
A simple improvement in oral care for hospitalised patients reduced the risk of non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia by 60 percent, a trial of 8870 patients in three Australian hospitals has found.
New research published in The BMJ has exposed the sheer scale of fake studies flooding cancer science. Working as a “scientific spam filter”, a new AI tool developed by Prof Adrian Barnett and colleagues identifies cancer research publications that are likely to have been produced by paper mills, organisations that mass produce fake research.
The Powerful Pictures study has been recognised for transforming cardiac care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Far North Queensland, receiving the inaugural Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) Award at the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) Annual Scientific Meeting on 26 November 2025.
A new international study led by Dr Qing Xia and published in JAMA Surgery has found that bariatric surgery improves work productivity and employment rates in the short term—but these gains may not last beyond five years without targeted support.
Dr Bridget Abell, a Senior Research Fellow in implementation science at AusHSI, was presented with the Alan Goble Distinguished Service Award at the 2025 Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association (ACRA) Annual Scientific Meeting in August in Brisbane.
