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“We should err on the side of protecting people’s reputation:” Management journal changes policy to avoid fraud

How can academic journals ensure the integrity of the data they publish? For one journal, the key is looking deeply at statistics, which revealed crucial problems in the research of recent high-profile fraudsters such as Anil Potti. Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Management, Patrick Wright from the University of South Carolina, recently authored an editorial about how he’s … Continue reading “We should err on the side of protecting people’s reputation:” Management journal changes policy to avoid fraud

Second retraction for researcher who faked 70+ experiments

Two researchers found to have faked data by the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) have lost a paper that they co-authored. According to the ORI report issued on May 25, Ricky Malhotra, one of the researchers in question, admitted to fabricating 74 experiments, and falsifying well over 100 Western blots while at the Universities of Michigan (UM) … Continue reading Second retraction for researcher who faked 70+ experiments

A prominent psychiatry researcher is dismissed. What’s happening to his papers?

After a prominent researcher was dismissed due to multiple instances of misconduct in his studies, how are journals responding? When an investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found multiple issues with the work of psychiatry researcher Alexander Neumeister, New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center shut down eight of his studies. (Disclosure: The author … Continue reading A prominent psychiatry researcher is dismissed. What’s happening to his papers?

Crow’s feet filler study omitted pharma funding, gets retracted

A paper on a filler for eye wrinkles did not disclose that it was funded by a pharmaceutical company that produces the cosmetic. The paper explicitly noted that the authors do not have any financial conflicts of interest, and that a government program supported the study. According to the journal, a reader alerted them to the … Continue reading Crow’s feet filler study omitted pharma funding, gets retracted

Vector wasn’t a gift after all, correction notes

A paper accidentally credited the wrong researcher with providing part of an experiment. It turns out that one of the authors supplied an expression vector to a Circulation paper about the molecular underpinnings of atherosclerosis — not the outside researcher originally thanked in the acknowledgements section. The correction notice to the paper makes the situation sound more mysterious … Continue reading Vector wasn’t a gift after all, correction notes

Author, among others, loses four papers for “compromised” peer review

Journals have retracted four papers from an author after uncovering evidence the peer review process had been compromised. Three papers have all common authors.  In one notice, issued last month, Annals of Human Genetics said it had reason to believe the paper had been reviewed by unqualified reviewers. Last year, another journal, Molecular Biology Reports, pulled two papers by … Continue reading Author, among others, loses four papers for “compromised” peer review

Patients did not okay publishing brain surgery details

BioMed Central has retracted a paper after realizing it shared details on the brain surgeries of four patients without their consent. Darlene Lobel, a neurosurgeon at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, agreed to the retraction, and told us she didn’t know that she needed consent from the patients since all identifying details had been removed. The paper describes … Continue reading Patients did not okay publishing brain surgery details

Authors pull Mol Cell paper for “inappropriate manipulation” of data

The authors of a Molecular Cell paper have retracted it due to issues with multiple figures — including one with evidence of “intentional misconduct.” According to the authors’ institution, IMIM in Barcelona, all co-authors are aware of the retraction. The penultimate author — Antonio García de Herreros — retracted three papers in May from the Journal of Biological Chemistry for … Continue reading Authors pull Mol Cell paper for “inappropriate manipulation” of data