Ethics

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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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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Twenty-six scientific articles by electrical engineer Antonio Orlandi have been retracted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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Genetics

Chinese scientist who claims to have created gene-edited babies suspended

He Jiankui claims to have altered genes using DNA editing technique

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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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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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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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Genetics

The limitations of a genome editing technique

The CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique is less accurate than previously thought

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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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Patent War

Patent War

Researchers locked in legal battle for property rights linked to the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 

Closer links with industry

UNICAMP is Brazil’s highest-ranked university for patent applications, and USP for licensing royalties

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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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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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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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