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University of Virginia business PhD student has second paper retracted

A PhD student at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business who had a paper retracted for plagiarism in March has had a second paper retracted. Bloomberg BusinessWeek was first to report the new retraction by Eugene Z. Geh. The study, “Understanding the Antecedents to an Entrepreneurial Firm’s Intent to Engage in International Strategic … Continue reading University of Virginia business PhD student has second paper retracted

Paper by NASA scientists retracted for plagiarizing NASA report

A team of researchers including NASA scientists have retracted a December 2012 article because it plagiarized…a 2000 NASA report. Here’s the notice for “A Fosmid Cloning Strategy for Detecting the Widest Possible Spectrum of Microbes from the International Space Station Drinking Water System,” published in Genomics & Informatics:

“Why Has the Number of Scientific Retractions Increased?” New study tries to answer

The title of this post is the title of a new study in PLOS ONE by three researchers whose names Retraction Watch readers may find familiar: Grant Steen, Arturo Casadevall, and Ferric Fang. Together and separately, they’ve examined retraction trends in a number of papers we’ve covered. Their new paper tries to answer a question … Continue reading “Why Has the Number of Scientific Retractions Increased?” New study tries to answer

Pesticide paper pulled for plagiarizing prior publication

The International Journal of Pest Management has retracted a 2007 article on spinosad pesticides by researcher who stole much of the material from the thesis of a Kansas State University masters student. But the retraction comes more than five years after a correction indicating that plagiarism had occurred — an odd interposition that we can’t … Continue reading Pesticide paper pulled for plagiarizing prior publication

Come again? “Penile Strangulation by Metallic Rings” retracted for duplication

The Indian Journal of Surgery, a Springer-Verlag title, has retracted a 2011 paper with a title only the Marquis de Sade would love: “Penile Strangulation by Metallic Rings.” We know what you’re saying: Who knew penises could be strangulated? Well, it’s true.

Authors of retracted sex paper won Ig Nobel for MRI study of coitus — and had another retraction

Yesterday we reported on the retraction for data misuse and plagiarism of a 21-year-old paper on sex and female cancer patients. Turns out we missed a couple of rather interesting details about the authors of the pulled article. One tidbit, for example, is that one of them, Willibrord Weijmar Schultz,  is science royalty, having been a … Continue reading Authors of retracted sex paper won Ig Nobel for MRI study of coitus — and had another retraction

Why I retracted my Nature paper: A guest post from David Vaux about correcting the scientific record

Last month, Ivan met David Vaux at the 3rd World Conference on Research Integrity in Montreal. David mentioned a retraction he published in Nature, and we thought it would be a great guest post on what it’s like to retract one of your own papers in an attempt to clean up the literature. In September … Continue reading Why I retracted my Nature paper: A guest post from David Vaux about correcting the scientific record

A masterbatch: More polymer retractions, gerontology journal lifts paywall, Microbiology notices appear

Our mothers told us that if we used the masterbatch process, we’d go blind. And what better way to gather some updates to recent posts than to include one that involves said masterbatch process? First, a retraction John Spevacek noticed when he tried clicking on the link in a Journal of Applied Polymer Science retraction we’d … Continue reading A masterbatch: More polymer retractions, gerontology journal lifts paywall, Microbiology notices appear

Bitter legal fight leads to a retracted retraction

Two years ago, the FASEB Journal retracted a paper that it had initially agreed to correct, after a dean at one of the author’s institutions said that a “well-recognized and top-class fact finding commission concluded that the publication contains gross flaws.” The retraction of the 2003 paper, as we noted at the time, punctuated a … Continue reading Bitter legal fight leads to a retracted retraction