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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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Outsourced quality control

Research institutions in Europe avoid accusations of misconduct by hiring external companies and specialists to check their work

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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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More information about predatory journals

Scientific integrity researchers attempt to overcome the challenges of classifying fraudulent journals

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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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The shadow of self-promotion

Database identifies 250 highly productive researchers suspected of excessive self-citation and cross-citation

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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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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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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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