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Highly cited and retracted
An article published in 2017 on the effects of chronic inflammation during the aging process has been retracted
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Misconduct in papers on misconduct
One of the abstracts submitted to the 6th World Conference on Research Integrity contained signs of plagiarism
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Multiple sanctions for ethical misconduct
Punishments for scientific misconduct will affect the social lives of Chinese researchers
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Transparency on the rise
A study published in the journal PLOS Biology suggests biomedical research is becoming more open and transparent
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Systematic violations in peer-review process
Twenty-six scientific articles by electrical engineer Antonio Orlandi have been retracted
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CNRS creates scientific integrity office
The French National Center for Scientific Research has established an office to investigate suspected cases of misconduct
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Arbitration in authorship conflicts
Canadian biologist Zen Faulkes proposed a new way of resolving disputes over the authorship of scientific articles
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Controversial list
Sectors of China's scientific community have criticized the government's proposal to create a national blacklist of poor-quality academic journals
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Fraud casts a shadow over stem cell research
The National Institutes of Health has instructed researchers to temporarily suspend stem cell therapy trials in heart failure patients
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The weight of Justice
Researchers debate whether scientific misconduct should be treated as a crime
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Research hospital director resigns amid conflicts of interest
Medical director of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York has stepped down
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Publish or Perish
Open-access scientific journal Nutrients recently lost all ten of its senior editors
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Habitual fraud
Japanese researchers lead the list of scientists with the highest number of retracted articles
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Inappropriate relationships
Universities Australia has released a document aimed at master's and PhD supervisors and students
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When recklessness becomes misconduct
An american neuroscientist dismissed for misconduct in 2012 by Wayne State University has managed to partially overturn his 10-year ban on federal research funding handed down by the US ORI
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Monitoring misconduct investigations
A report suggested establishing a committee to monitor university investigations into misconduct
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Czech politicians resign over academic plagiarism
Two government ministers in the Czech Republic have recently resigned amid accusations of having plagiarized their university theses
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The specter of predatory journals in Brazil
Study shows how many researchers in the country are publishing in suspicious journals
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Fictitious author, false conclusions
The Indian Journal of Medical Ethics published an article with false conclusions and author
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UNICAMP discusses gender discrimination and sexual violence
A working group discuss gender discrimination, harassment, and sexual violence at the university
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Forged confirmation letters
The American Society of Civil Engineers has learned that its name is being fraudulently used to scam people out of money
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Pitfalls of misconduct
Director of the National Center for Professional & Research Ethics at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, USA, listed the pitfalls that students and researchers often fall into that can lead to poor decisions and cases of scientific misconduct
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A second chance
Biologist fired by the University of Tokyo for manipulating images receives training from British Nobel laureate
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Editor resigns after accusations of harassment
The American Journal of Political Science former editor William Jacoby resigned from his position amid allegations of sexual harassment
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A network for reproducing scientific experiments
A group of researchers are organizing a network of laboratories to repeat up to 100 biomedical experiments in order to verify the reproducibility of the results
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