Late last week, Nature reported some details of PubPeer’s fight against a subpoena from a researcher who claims to have lost a job because of comments on the site. (Background here.) Here’s another installment of PubPeer Selections: Continue reading PubPeer Selections: From “this comment is clearly unfounded” to “happy to elaborate,” a range of responses
Author: Ivan Oransky
Engineer in South Korea forced to retract ten papers in one fell swoop
Chang-Suk Han, a member of the engineering faculty at Hoseo University in South Korea, has had ten articles retracted at once because of duplicated data.
Here are the ten studies from Metals and Materials International: Continue reading Engineer in South Korea forced to retract ten papers in one fell swoop
Retraction appears for faked study of Novartis anti-cancer compound
A paper by a former postdoc at MD Anderson Cancer Center who “admitted to knowingly and intentionally falsifying” a figure has been retracted.
In August, the Office of Research Integrity announced that it had sanctioned Jun Fu for faking data in a study of the results of a mouse study of NVP-HSP990, a Novartis compound designed to fight brain tumors. Here’s the notice for the study in question, published in Cancer Research:
Continue reading Retraction appears for faked study of Novartis anti-cancer compound
Weekend reads: Speed kills in publishing too; studying blank pages; apologies for the Rosetta Shirt
Highlights at Retraction Watch this week included a case of overly honest referencing and the story of how a medical resident flagged up a pseudoscientific study. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Speed kills in publishing too; studying blank pages; apologies for the Rosetta Shirt
PubPeer Selections: Corrections in PNAS, PLOS Pathogens after PubPeer critiques; how old is too old?
Weekend reads: Scientists behaving badly; sexual harassment at Yale; help us find Retraction Watch bugs
First, a housekeeping note: We migrated web hosts this week, and while the move seems to have gone mostly smoothly, we’ve noticed a few issues: Comments aren’t threaded (even though we have them set up to be), categories aren’t properly nesting, and a small percentage of comments didn’t transfer over with the rest, the way they should have. We’re working on getting this resolved, and looking into whether we can (or should) restore upvoting and downvoting on comments, so please let us know of any other issues you see, and thanks as always for your patience.
Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Scientists behaving badly; sexual harassment at Yale; help us find Retraction Watch bugs
PubPeer Selections: Authors respond to critiques; motorcycling meets photonics; soda and aging
This week we learned that Fazlul Sarkar, who is suing PubPeer commenters, claiming he lost a job offer at the University of Mississippi because of their critiques, declined an opportunity to respond to said comments. Here’s another installment of PubPeer Selections: Continue reading PubPeer Selections: Authors respond to critiques; motorcycling meets photonics; soda and aging
Shigeaki Kato up to 28 retractions, with three papers cited nearly 700 times
Former University of Tokyo researcher Shigeaki Kato has notched his 26th, 27th, and 28th retractions, all in Nature Cell Biology. The three papers have been cited a total of 677 times.
Here’s the notice for “DEAD-box RNA helicase subunits of the Drosha complex are required for processing of rRNA and a subset of microRNAs:” Continue reading Shigeaki Kato up to 28 retractions, with three papers cited nearly 700 times
Weekend reads: “Academic science isn’t sexist;” buying your way into university rankings
The week at Retraction Watch began with news of a lawsuit against PubPeer commenters. Here’s what was happening elsewhere:Parkinson’s researcher to appear in court to face fraud charges
A researcher in Australia who has had several papers retracted following an investigation by her former employer is now facing fraud and other charges.
As The Guardian reports: Continue reading Parkinson’s researcher to appear in court to face fraud charges