Ethics

Citation amplification machine

Spanish university dean’s work retracted for fraud in scientific impact indicators

Ethical principles

New version of the Declaration of Helsinki influenced by the pandemic and scientific integrity

Fraud with chatGPT

Misconduct linked to the use of AI on the rise in UK institutions

Canada’s Medical Association apologizes for bad conduct with native peoples

Organ admits it has not abided to the ethical standards demanded by the profession

Divergent calculations

Researchers reach different conclusions on the scale of data fabrication

Rise and fall

Suspicious images in articles lead to downfall of director of Alzheimer's research program

False advertising

Scammers pose as scientific conference organizers

Beware: Fragile

Online tool identifies articles with retracted references

The calculating cat

Biologist reveals flaws in academic metrics by attributing fake studies and manipulated citations to his family pet

Student protection

Universities in England face new obligations to prevent sexual harassment

Data verification

The difficulties of verifying statistical rigor in medical articles

Botanists say no to racism

Racist term to be eliminated from scientific names of plants, fungi, and algae

Tricks to increase prestige

Seventeen journals temporarily stripped of impact factor due to suspicions that citation figures were being manipulated

New legislation establishes punishments for Peruvian scientists who commit misconduct

New legislation establishes punishments for Peruvian scientists who commit misconduct

Article linking vitamin D to milder cases of COVID retracted

Article linking vitamin D to milder cases of COVID retracted

Detours in the labyrinth of Alzheimer’s disease

Author of Nature article cited more than 2,500 times acknowledges image manipulation and requests retraction

Research animal supplier pays record fine for mistreatment of beagles

Research animal supplier pays record fine for mistreatment of beagles

Retired researcher says open-access agreement is discriminatory

Retired researcher says open-access agreement is discriminatory

Care and empathy for animals

Researchers from various disciplines investigate ways to reduce pain and improve the quality of life for species used or consumed by humans

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

American universities examine sexual violence on campus

American universities examine sexual violence on campus

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

The echo of ancient words

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

Linguistics journal editors resign and found new journal

Linguistics journal editors resign and found new journal

PLOS ONE changes publication process to reduce number of corrections

PLOS ONE changes publication process to reduce number of corrections

Hell is other people

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

Cash reward for finding errors in influential articles

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

Signs of forced consent

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

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