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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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Four shades of academic plagiarism

India releases new guidelines on how to punish plagiarism in scientific papers and proposes a scale for assessing the severity of the problem

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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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Addressing sexual harassment in academia

Report proposes new strategies for protecting students and researchers from harassment and coercion

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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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Misconduct in proposal review process

US National Institutes of Health investigates suspected confidentiality breaches and reciprocal favors

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Multiple irregularities

Journal has announced the retraction of a scientific paper based on a number of factors

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Billionaire startup founders charged with fraud

The Securities and Exchange Commission has formally charged biotechnology company Theranos with fraud

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Credit where credit is due

Experts recommend ways to ensure proper recognition of everyone who contributes to a scientific article

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Young authors in South Korea

The South Korean government is to begin an investigation into cases of researchers registering their own children as coauthors of their scientific articles

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Agency takes action against sexual harassment

The NSF has announced a set of measures to combat sexual harassment in the academic environment

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Preventing further crises

Report proposes changing research practices to reduce the publication of studies whose results have not been replicated

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Wrong version of an article published

The Journal of Paleontology recently retracted a scientific paper for an unusual reason

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The Spectre of Eugenics at University

UCL has announced an investigation into a researcher accused of secretly promoting conferences on intelligence and eugenics at the university over the last three years

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A closer look at retractions around the world

Study uses announcements on Retraction Watch website to produce an overview of misconduct in scientific publications

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Mass resignation from editorial board

Nineteen researchers stepped down from the editorial board of Scientific Reports, in November

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The career effects of scandal

A group of researchers from the MIT and Harvard University measured the damage that an article retraction causes to the reputation of its authors

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Software detects errors in cancer genetics articles

Online tool available for testing identifies mistakes in gene sequences

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