Ethics
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University to pay US$3.7 million to settle allegations of fraud
Rice University has agreed to pay US$3.7 million to the United States government to settle a lawsuit that accused its directors of violating rules on the use of funding from the National Science Foundation
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Publishers team up to identify altered images
Major publishers of scientific journals worldwide have created a working group to create new standards and promote technologies capable of detecting manipulated or duplicate images in papers
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Mysterious and fraudulent authorship
The scientific journal Future Generation Computer Systems recently announced the retraction of a 2018 article
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A keen eye for detecting manipulation
In an effort to improve the quality of the scientific articles it publishes, the Journal of Clinical Investigation began requiring that all authors provide the raw data produced by their experiments
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Error leads to retraction of controversial article
The journal Scientific Reports announced the retraction of a 2019 article claiming that fluctuations in the Sun's magnetic field play a role in climate change on Earth
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Young academics are more afraid of reporting misconduct
A group of scientific integrity experts from the Netherlands and Norway interviewed 1,100 researchers from eight European universities
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The spread of plagiarism
Russian Academy of Sciences uncovers widespread misconduct, leading to the retraction of 869 articles
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Undeclared foreign funding
The US Department of Education is investigating Harvard and Yale universities for failing to declare funding received from foreign governments
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Predatory journal training
The University Grants Commission has decreed that universities in the country must train all PhD students in the ethics of scientific publication
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Support for the publication of unexpected results
€1,000 is offered as a bonus to researchers at the Berlin Institute of Health who publish negative results
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Crackdown on fraudulent citations
Publishers and journals attempt to combat fraudulent conduct in the article review process
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Article retracted by Nobel Prize winner
Frances Arnold, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on the evolution of enzymes, announced on Twitter that her group was retracting a scientific article published last year
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Guidelines canceled after opioid crisis
The World Health Organization has announced the retraction of two guidelines on the use of opioidsfor pain control
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Employees or spies?
Report recommends ways of preventing foreign influence on research in the USA
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Punished after reporting colleagues
An investigation by the Canadian Association of University Teachers found that the leaders of Thompson Rivers University violated the academic freedom of one of its professors
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Retraction overview
A researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Leiden, Netherlands, published a paper that gives a comprehensive overview of scientific articles retracted due to errors, bias, fraud, or plagiarism
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Flawed theory retracted
The idea that HIV may not be the cause of AIDS was suggested in the 1990s, but completely discredited when drugs were created that prevented replication of the virus and eliminated the symptoms of the syndrome
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Purdue researcher admits fraud
At a US district court, Qingyou Han, director of Purdue University's Center for Materials Processing Research, admitted defrauding the NSF, the USA's largest research funding agency
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Academic legacy in dispute
King's College finds work by one of its most renowned researchers "unsafe"
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Agencies facing unique challenges
A comparative study looks at how two of the USA's top research funding agencies deal with cases of misconduct
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Secret donations lead to MIT lab director’s resignation
Entrepreneur and digital activist Joichi Ito resigned as director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
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Swedish universities suffer crisis of confidence
Parliament sets up agency to centralize investigations into scientific misconduct
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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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