Good practices

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Data manufactured in study evaluating psychiatric clinics

A renowned expert in treating anxiety and phobias who edited a mental disorder diagnosis manual used by psychologists in Germany fabricated some of the data in a €2.4-million study

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Publicizing the Hong Kong Principles

Study looks at initiatives to reward researchers for sharing data and other ethical and transparent behavior

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Racial violence and scientific meetings

The American Physical Society has adopted new venue selection criteria for its 12 annual scientific events

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Scientific integrity training

The Albert Einstein Israeli Institute for Teaching and Research has strengthened training in good research practices for its graduate students

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The slow path to self-correction in science

Psychologists continued to cite papers whose results were not confirmed in subsequent research, study shows

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An integrity official at every agency

On January 27, United States President Joe Biden ordered a review of the scientific integrity policies of all federal agencies

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Simple tips to combat misconduct

The associate dean of research at São Paulo State University created a website with tips on good practices and issues related to scientific integrity

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How to survive the poison of predatory journals

Scientists look for ways to mitigate the damage of publishing in fraudulent journals

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Recognizing diversity in research

Cell Press has adopted an innovative policy to encourage diversity and inclusion in scientific research

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Rewards for publishing lead to distortions in South Africa

A survey of 967 researchers from South Africa arrived at an ambiguous conclusion

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The “special issue” scam

Fraudsters deceive editors of scientific journals and infiltrate the article review process for special issues

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Frustrated ambitions

A group of researchers from the Netherlands has been working on a large multidisciplinary survey on scientific integrity at Dutch universities and research institutions

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1951 paper on homosexuality retracted

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease has announced the retraction of a scientific article published almost 70 years ago.

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Artificial intelligence in peer review

Software identifies potential conflicts of interest between the authors of an article and the researchers reviewing it

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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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Evidence gathered to improve scientific integrity

A European project is analyzing initiatives implemented by universities and research institutions to identify the most successful approaches

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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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Punishment for paper mills

Chinese government proposes sanctions for companies selling scientific papers on demand, which are most often fraudulent

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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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The threat of predatory journals in the midst of a pandemic

Despite being rare, articles on COVID-19 published in fraudulent journals serve as a warning

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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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Integrity in the midst of a public health emergency

Study examines recommendations for ensuring the quality of peer reviews during the pandemic

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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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