One issue that we see pretty regularly is a paper submitted by one author without the permission of the others.
That’s what’s happened with “p53-induced Rap2B positively regulates migration in cells exposed to glucose deprivation,” published in July by Molecular Carcinogenesis. The paper looks at a protein called p53, well-known to regulate cell growth and, when mutated, cause cancer.
Here’s the pretty straightforward retraction note:
Continue reading P53 researcher submitted paper “without permission from his co-authors”