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Sex addiction article retracted, republished

An open-access journal with a speedy peer review process has been having some issues with a retracted article on the biology of sex addiction. Here’s the simple timeline of events: “Hypersexuality Addiction and Withdrawal: Phenomenology, Neurogenetics and Epigenetics,” a review article, was published by Cureus in July, following a two-day peer review. In the weeks that followed, the paper received a … Continue reading Sex addiction article retracted, republished

Plagiarism was “not an intentional act,” says first author of retracted TB paper

A 2013 review article about tuberculosis is being retracted for “unacknowledged re-use of significant portions of text” from another article, which the first author said wasn’t intentional. Sayantan Ray, based at Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata in India, told us that “most of the unchanged text” is present in sections written by junior co-authors. Since there doesn’t … Continue reading Plagiarism was “not an intentional act,” says first author of retracted TB paper

How long does it take to retract a paper? A look at the Eric Poehlman record

In 2005, the U.S. Office of Research Integrity announced that obesity researcher Eric Poehlman had committed misconduct in 10 published papers. You might think that all of those ten articles would have been retracted a decade later. You’d be wrong. Only six of them have. Here’s what Elizabeth Wager (a member of the board of directors of The … Continue reading How long does it take to retract a paper? A look at the Eric Poehlman record

Paper on natural ways to fight cancer stem cells nixed for plagiarism

Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents has retracted a 2015 review article about natural fighters of cancer stem cells for reproducing “content to a high degree of similarity without appropriate attribution or acknowledgement” from a handful of papers. Although the editor and publisher pulled the paper, they did so with the cooperation of the authors, according to … Continue reading Paper on natural ways to fight cancer stem cells nixed for plagiarism

At least one-third of top science journals lack a retraction policy — a big improvement

More than one third — 35% — of the world’s top-ranked science journals that responded to a survey don’t have a retraction policy, according to a new study. And that’s a dramatic improvement over findings of a similar study a little more than a decade ago. For the new paper, “Retraction policies of top scientific … Continue reading At least one-third of top science journals lack a retraction policy — a big improvement

“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

Weekend reads: Reviewer comments unmasked, the problem with top journal editors, originality an illusion?

The week at Retraction Watch featured a number of legal cases by scientists trying to suppress criticism about their work. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: