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Statistical support for psychology journals

A group of researchers have proposed a new strategy to prevent errors and biases in psychology research findings

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Swedish universities suffer crisis of confidence

Parliament sets up agency to centralize investigations into scientific misconduct

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“I see too many cases where nothing ever happens”

Journalist Ivan Oransky, creator of the Retraction Watch website, discusses how the fight against scientific misconduct has evolved in recent years

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Academy may expel members for misconduct

The US National Academy of Sciences has announced a change to its bylaws to allow the expulsion of members who violate the organization's code of conduct

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Is it possible to derive good from evil?

The quality and usefulness of the Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy is now raising ethical questions

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A new reward system

World conference in Hong Kong proposes changes to evaluation processes to help improve scientific integrity

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Lack of Transparency

Most research universities in the European Union have failed to comply with the 2014 rule that the results of clinical trials must be made public within 12 months

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Punishment after 40 years of harassment at Harvard

Harvard University, USA, has revoked the emeritus status of sociologist Jorge Dominguez, a former professor at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and was vice provost for international affairs at the institution from 2006 to 2015

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The self-correcting nature of science

Report offers recommendations on how to reduce the number of scientific findings not reproducible by later studies

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Article written by priest retracted for plagiarism

"The Road to Emmaus and the Road to Gaza," published by Canadian priest Thomas Rosica in 1994, has been retracted by the journal Worship

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Punishment for deceptive business practices

Omics International has been found guilty of adopting deceptive commercial policies that violate US law in a suit filed by the US Federal Trade Commission

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Data fraud leads to multimillion-dollar settlement

Duke University agrees to pay US$112.5 million in case of researcher charged with systematic data fraud

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Editor fired for homophobia

The American Heart Association dismissed cardiologist Roberto Bolli from his position as editor in chief of its journal Circulation Research

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Why do authors publish in predatory journals?

Why do authors publish in predatory journals that do not properly review articles and are more interested in making money than maintaining a good reputation?

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Clampdown on sexual harassment in labs

US National Institutes of Health reinforces commitment to punishing researchers, while Congress discusses rules for federal funding agencies

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Inappropriate reviewer behavior

The Oxford University Press journal Bioinformatics recently published a case study on misconduct in the peer review process

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The American connection

The controversial baby gene-editing experiment performed in China may have directly involved a scientist from the USA

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An algorithm for evaluating research credibility

The Pentagon wants to develop a tool capable of identifying whether social and behavioral science research results are credible

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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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No blame, no policing

Dutch code of conduct proposes ongoing discussion on scientific integrity without fear of reprisals, highlighting the duties of care of research institutions

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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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The importance of null results

Experiments that do not arrive at their expected conclusion are more frequent than previously thought, and disregarding them can generate biases, study shows

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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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