Trust & Integrity

Julia joined the Journals Editorial team at OUP in 2009, since then she has worked across STEM and HSSL subject areas in both the UK and the US. She is now Director of Journals Product and is responsible for leading OUP’s Journals Product development in collaboration with wider OUP teams and external vendors. This includes trust & integrity capabilities, solutions to address challenges throughout the publishing process, and working with our platform team to enhance Oxford Academic. Julia holds a BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford.

Formerly a medical doctor and academic, Dr. Patel has spent the last 17 years in scholarly publishing developing an expertise in research integrity. Dr. Patel led the first Research Integrity Group, a team dedicated to maintaining research integrity standards, at BioMed Central and helped to establish the research integrity group at Springer Nature before becoming an independent research integrity specialist.

As an independent research integrity specialist, Dr. Patel works with publishers, journals, and other organizations that are committed to preserving research integrity. Dr. Patel uses past experience to create and deliver strategies that help to manage, prevent, and detect research and publication misconduct and tackle challenges to research integrity. Dr. Patel also provides training and resources for new editors and early career researchers on all matters related to research integrity.

Dr. Patel is an independent elected member of COPE Council.

Finn joined OUP in 2024 as Ethics and Integrity Coordinator, a new role focused on the implementation of the Trust & Integrity Programme. His current responsibilities include organising pilots, conducting research into integrity issues, creating policies and guidance, running training sessions for key stakeholders and coordinating numerous other projects. He has also worked in Editorial roles for several years and has been entrusted to manage a portfolio of STM journals.

With over 19 years’ experience in journals publishing, Angelina joined OUP in Fall 2021 as a Publisher where she managed a portfolio of journals within medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Within her current role, Angelina works alongside the Product team at OUP to assess current and future needs across journals through proprietary innovations and third-party tools.

Rachel L. Safer (she/her) is Executive Publisher, Ethics & Integrity at OUP and leads the OUP Journals Ethics program. She joined OUP in 2011 and, since 2016, has served as a Council Member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Rachel is based in Boston.