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Training that borders on misconduct

Scientific writing companies offer young doctors competing for grants and jobs in the USA the chance to be named as authors of articles produced in workshops

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American universities examine sexual violence on campus

American universities examine sexual violence on campus

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Tool notifies readers if a paper is suspected of containing errors or fraud

Tool notifies readers if a paper is suspected of containing errors or fraud

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The echo of ancient words

Researchers and journals discuss limits on when authors can reuse excerpts from their previous work in new articles

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Linguistics journal editors resign and found new journal

Linguistics journal editors resign and found new journal

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PLOS ONE changes publication process to reduce number of corrections

PLOS ONE changes publication process to reduce number of corrections

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Hell is other people

Researchers tend to overestimate their academic honesty, suggests study of more than 11,000 Swedish scientists and doctoral students

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Cash reward for finding errors in influential articles

Over the next four years, a program based at the University of Bern, Switzerland, will pay experts to look for errors in over one hundred influential scientific articles. The more problems they find, the more money they will receive. Each will be paid a minimum of US$285 if they find nothing, rising to more than... View Article

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Scientist who publishes more than one paper per week has had 20 retracted

Saudi pharmacist Nabil Alhakamy has published 219 scientific articles since 2020—an average of more than one per week. The quality of his academic work, however, is now under question: more than 20 of his articles have been retracted in recent years, mostly due to problems with images and figures. The most recent was a paper... View Article

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Signs of forced consent

Suspicion that ethnic groups were coerced into providing data and biological samples calls 96 forensic genetics articles into question

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Norwegian minister behind crackdown on student misconduct resigns due to plagiarism

Sandra Borch resigned from her post on January 23 after allegations that she plagiarized at least 20% of her master's thesis

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American university museum returns artifacts looted from Greece

Emory University reached an agreement with the Greek Ministry of Culture to return three artifacts held at the institution’s Michael C. Carlos Museum

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Shining a light on the dark history of racism

Two-hundred-year-old scientific journal acknowledges its own connections with slavery and complicity in prejudice

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Study examines sanctions for misconduct in the USA

A team of researchers analyzed the severity of punishments for scientists accused of misconduct by the US Office of Scientific Integrity

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Map of scientific article retractions in the BRICS countries

Researchers from India analyzed 11,764 articles by scientists from BRICS countries that were retracted between 1989 and 2021

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Saudi universities suffer from purge of list of highly cited researchers

In just one year, the number of researchers linked to institutions in Saudi Arabia who were named on Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list fell from 109 to 76

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Study shows potential for ChatGPT to fabricate and defraud clinical trial results

AI technology is capable of generating false clinical trial data to support the conclusions of fraudulent scientific articles

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High sensitivity

Social psychologists say that controversial research topics may be targeted by covert censorship, calling for more transparency in science

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Compromised peer review leads to retraction of 209 articles

Publishing company Sage has announced the retraction of 209 scientific articles

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Automatic conversion in Excel changed to prevent errors in genetic studies

Microsoft has announced changes to an Excel feature that has become infamous for introducing errors into research data

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A recipe to follow

Consortium proposes checklists to ensure that microscopy images in articles can be understood and confirmed

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Retraction database sold for US$775,000

Crossref, a nonprofit organization, has purchased Retraction Watch’s database

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Alcohol restrictions tightened on scientific bases in Antarctica

New rules came into effect in October on the sale of alcoholic beverages at USA’s McMurdo Station, the largest scientific station in Antarctica

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Risky behavior

Researchers suggest parameters for judging cases of scientific misconduct involving recklessness

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Misconduct on display

Website that allows users to make anonymous comments on scientific articles has established itself as a platform for reporting ethical misconduct

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Putting the brakes on special editions

Ethics Committee launches document to combat the proliferation of special journal issues

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Misconduct in melanoma study

Australian cancer research center faces melanoma study misconduct case

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Integrity advisors

Australia assesses the impact of specialists responsible for guiding teachers and students on responsible conduct, a model that is gaining ground in other countries

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Stanford president resigns after image manipulation investigation

Stanford president resigns after image manipulation investigation

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Military personnel punished for sexual assault of researcher in Antarctica

Military personnel punished for sexual assault of researcher in Antarctica

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