“Searching our souls”: Authors retract paper after researcher admits to fabricating data
Researchers at a prominent Japanese university have retracted a 2016 paper in a chemistry journal after the first author admitted to scientific misconduct. According to the notice, Kyushu University investigated and verified that the first author had committed scientific misconduct. We requested a copy of the misconduct report, which revealed that the researcher, Prasenjit Mahato, a … Continue reading “Searching our souls”: Authors retract paper after researcher admits to fabricating data