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Big trouble in little China: Two looks at what warps scientific publishing there

The press corps has turned its attention to scientific publishing in China this week. Here’s Naomi Ching’s lede — that’s how we spell it in journalism — from Nautilus: You may have heard that Chinese researchers are not very well compensated, compared to their Western counterparts. What you might not know is that they can … Continue reading Big trouble in little China: Two looks at what warps scientific publishing there

Editor: “Close to 10% of the papers we receive show some sign of academic misconduct”

The latest issue of Elsevier’s Editors’ Update is part one of a two-part series on publishing ethics. It contains a bevy of articles on various issues that will be be familiar to Retraction Watch readers, from bias to research misconduct. (Not surprisingly, given the sheer number of journals they publish, Elsevier shows up regularly on … Continue reading Editor: “Close to 10% of the papers we receive show some sign of academic misconduct”

Paper on over-the-counter drugs goes over the line in borrowing text

The journal Clinical Research and Regulatory Affairs has retracted a 2012 article on over-the-counter drugs by a trio of pharmacy researchers in India who decided to “reproduce content to a high degree of similarity” from other sources. Here’s how the retraction notice puts it:

Frontiers papers on GMO debate, diabetes retracted for improperly cited text

The author of a review article on diabetes has been forced to retract the paper after it emerged that he failed to properly credit some of the text — an omission we generally associate with the word plagiarism. The article, “Colonic flora, probiotics, obesity and diabetes,” was written by Paul Marik, of Eastern Virginia Medical … Continue reading Frontiers papers on GMO debate, diabetes retracted for improperly cited text

One more paper down for sex researcher Weijmar Schultz

The fifth of six expected retractions for copyright infringement has arrived for a group of sex researchers led by Willibrord Weijmar Schultz, this one in the International Journal of Gynecological Cancer of a 1992 article. As we reported earlier this year, Schultz (whose 1999 paper on sex in an MRI won an Ig Nobel prize) and his … Continue reading One more paper down for sex researcher Weijmar Schultz

The brains in Spain fall mainly on…Iran?

We’ve come across some odd examples of plagiarism in this job, from the fellow who tried to build a CV on the back of another researcher’s work, to the education researcher who, from what we can tell, preferred lifting the work of others to writing her own papers. Here’s another odd one for the pile. … Continue reading The brains in Spain fall mainly on…Iran?

Case Western dermatology department hit with second ORI sanction within 6 months

The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) has sanctioned an assistant professor of dermatology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland for plagiarizing from a grant application she was reviewing — which feels like a scientific version of insider trading — and a number of published papers. According to the ORI’s findings, Pratima Karnik

Author stalemate in Czech DNA paper leads to retraction

Okay, so it’s not quite Kafka, but a group of forensic geneticists from Prague’s Charles University has lost a paper in Folia Biologica (a journal from that famed institution where Kafka studied) over what appears to be a rather Byzantine dispute about authorship and the quality of the data. The 2010 article, “DNA analysis of … Continue reading Author stalemate in Czech DNA paper leads to retraction

What happens to researchers who publish duplicated papers? At one university, they’re promoted

One of the things we try to do here at Retraction Watch is see what happens to researchers who’ve had to retract papers. There’s Naoki Mori, who lost his job because of extensive image manipulation but sued successfully to get it back, for example. Now, courtesy of the Oakland Press, we have the story of … Continue reading What happens to researchers who publish duplicated papers? At one university, they’re promoted

Retraction notice for cancer paper gives wide berth to the “p” word

The Journal of Neuro-Oncology has retracted a 2009 article on brain tumors for what’s clearly plagiarism — but which is called everything but. The article was titled “Glioma grading: sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values of diffusion and perfusion imaging,” and it came from a group at the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical … Continue reading Retraction notice for cancer paper gives wide berth to the “p” word