Prominent plant biologist Olivier Voinnet has issued three more corrections in this week’s issue of Science.
Collectively, the papers have earned more than 1400 citations, according to Thomson Scientific’s Web of Knowledge.
By our count, he’s now at 21 corrections and seven retractions, following months of questions about his work. He’s been the subject of an investigation that found he “breached his duty of care,” and another which found evidence of scientific misconduct.
One correction goes against the recommendation of the ETH Commission to retract the paper for “well documented intentional manipulations.” According to the correction note, the incorrect figures did not “alter the data in any material way that could be construed to benefit the results and their conclusions.” That correction is the only one of the three for which Voinnet takes full responsibility.
The other two corrections place the responsibility on Continue reading Science publishes Voinnet’s 19th, 20th, and 21st corrections