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“Proven plagiarism” extracts paper on keeping teeth healthy in outer space

Aeronautic dentistry seems like a fairly unique field, but a review article about keeping teeth healthy in outer space has been retracted from the International Journal of Stomatology & Occlusion Medicine for not being quite unique enough. “Aeronautic dentistry: an upcoming branch,” a review article, appears to have lifted pieces of other works “verbatim and without … Continue reading “Proven plagiarism” extracts paper on keeping teeth healthy in outer space

Highly cited cancer researcher pulls review for “similar text and illustrations”

The author of a 2006 review article published in Abdominal Imaging has retracted it because it hews too closely to previously published articles. The review described the latest imaging techniques used in cancer, focusing on genitourinary conditions. Here’s the full text of the retraction notice for “New Horizons in Genitourinary Oncologic Imaging”:

Snail egg article retracted for fishing for material from six other papers

The first author of a review article on extracting pharmacological compounds from marine organisms, published in the Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, has retracted it due to plagiarism. There were also some authorship issues, according to the retraction notice for the paper, which absolves the last author, based at Pondicherry University in India, from … Continue reading Snail egg article retracted for fishing for material from six other papers

Biology team with two retractions now correcting references to nixed papers

A team of biologists that retracted two papers after being “unable to replicate some of the results obtained by the first author of the paper” has now issued a correction to fix references to the two sunk publications. The corrected paper is a review in the Journal of Virology — known there as a Gem — … Continue reading Biology team with two retractions now correcting references to nixed papers

“Unacceptable level of text parallels” loses neuroscientist a paper, but not her PhD

We should probably launch a new blog just on the euphemisms used for plagiarism. A case of “inadequate procedural or methodological practices of citation or quotation” causing an “unacceptable level of text parallels” has sunk a review paper, but not a thesis, for a PhD who studied memory consolidation at Maynooth University in Ireland. According … Continue reading “Unacceptable level of text parallels” loses neuroscientist a paper, but not her PhD

Water under the bridge? Hydrology journals won’t retract plagiarized papers despite university request

In April 2014, we wrote about the case of a former hydrologist at the University of Kansas (KU), Marios Sophocleous, who had plagiarized in at least seven studies, two of which were retracted by the journal Ground Water. At the time, we mentioned two other articles, in the Hydrogeology Journal, that appeared destined for retraction … Continue reading Water under the bridge? Hydrology journals won’t retract plagiarized papers despite university request

“Undeclared competing interest” sinks fish oil takedown by author fined for deceptive claims

The Journal of Lipids has retracted an aggressively negative review article called “Why Fish Oil Fails,” written by one Brian S. Peskin, whose bogus health claims have landed him in plenty of hot water in the past. Here’s the notice:

Mistaken punctuation, misreferencing, and other euphemisms for plagiarism

It’s always amusing to see how far a journal will bend over backward to avoid coming out and calling something “plagiarism.” We’ve got two notices for you that exemplify the phenomenon, which we discussed in our Lab Times column last year. The first, an article about apartheid, was presented at a student conference and published in the Polyvocia: … Continue reading Mistaken punctuation, misreferencing, and other euphemisms for plagiarism

“Substantial flaws” trip up big toe paper

Rehabilitation Research and Practice has retracted a 2012 review article on stiff big toes. The article, “Therapeutic Management of the Hallux Rigidus,” came from a group in India. According to the abstract: