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A retraction with explicit criticism
The Brain Research Bulletin announced the retraction of a 2017 article on the effect of the hormone erythropoietin in rats and it decided to clearly explain why
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The impact of predatory journals
A paper analyzed the impact of 10 marketing journals by counting how many times their articles were cited in other periodicals in the same field
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UNICAMP issues new research integrity policy
University creates commission to produce educational material and assess complaints
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Article proves resilient after retraction
In 2005, the scientific journal Chest, from the American College of Chest Physicians, published an article by surgeon Wataru Matsuyama of Kagoshima University, Japan, sharing the results of a clinical trial that suggested omega-3 polyunsaturated fats had a positive effect on patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. As the result of an investigation into Matsuyama’s... View Article
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COVID-19 miracle remedies
A preprint describing a potential treatment for the novel coronavirus caught the attention of Dutch biologist Elizabeth Bik, who runs a blog on scientific integrity
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Fraud in conference proceedings
IOP Publishing, based in the United Kingdom, has retracted 25 physics and materials sciences/engineering conference proceedings papers
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The Lancet acknowledges weaknesses in its review process
The scientific journal has announced plans to change its article-review process in order to prevent the publication of papers based on interpretations of large data sets that cannot be audited
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The most common types of misconduct
A professor of criminology at the University of Arizonainterviewed 613 researchers and asked them which types of scientific misconduct they believe occur most frequently in academia
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Punishment for administrative misconduct
A mathematician at the Georgia Tech sentenced to two months of house arrest for misrepresenting information in research reports submitted to the NSF in relation to a US$240,000 grant.
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Appointment canceled after scandal
The Veneto Institute of Molecular Medicine in Padua, Italy, revoked geneticist Pier Paolo Pandolfi’s appointment as scientific director after members of its scientific advisory board resigned en masse in protest
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The limits of text recycling
A group of researchers is analyzing the extent to which an author can reuse excerpts of their own academic work in new papers without being accused of plagiarism
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List of retractions grows
It has been 10 years since German anesthesiologist Joachim Boldt was involved in one of the largest scientific misconduct scandals in history. Even today, the scandal continues
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Harvard puts anthropologist on leave amid allegations of sexual harassment
Gary Urton has been put on paid leave while the institution investigates allegations of sexual harassment filed by former students
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University to pay US$3.7 million to settle allegations of fraud
Rice University has agreed to pay US$3.7 million to the United States government to settle a lawsuit that accused its directors of violating rules on the use of funding from the National Science Foundation
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Publishers team up to identify altered images
Major publishers of scientific journals worldwide have created a working group to create new standards and promote technologies capable of detecting manipulated or duplicate images in papers
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Mysterious and fraudulent authorship
The scientific journal Future Generation Computer Systems recently announced the retraction of a 2018 article
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A keen eye for detecting manipulation
In an effort to improve the quality of the scientific articles it publishes, the Journal of Clinical Investigation began requiring that all authors provide the raw data produced by their experiments
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Error leads to retraction of controversial article
The journal Scientific Reports announced the retraction of a 2019 article claiming that fluctuations in the Sun's magnetic field play a role in climate change on Earth
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Young academics are more afraid of reporting misconduct
A group of scientific integrity experts from the Netherlands and Norway interviewed 1,100 researchers from eight European universities
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The spread of plagiarism
Russian Academy of Sciences uncovers widespread misconduct, leading to the retraction of 869 articles
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Predatory journal training
The University Grants Commission has decreed that universities in the country must train all PhD students in the ethics of scientific publication
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Support for the publication of unexpected results
€1,000 is offered as a bonus to researchers at the Berlin Institute of Health who publish negative results
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