Search Results for: plagiarism

Need more material for your paper under review? Just take it from someone else’s conference presentation

Let’s say you’re a researcher who’s just gotten reviews back from your latest manuscript, asking for some revisions. Luckily, you find yourself at a conference and spot a presentation that’s related to your work. So you use a bunch of that presentation material in your paper. Unfortunately for you, the guy who gave that conference … Continue reading Need more material for your paper under review? Just take it from someone else’s conference presentation

“Highly unethical practices” force four retractions for nanotech researcher

Sanjeeb K. Sahoo, of the Institute of Life Sciences in Bhubaneswar, India, has had four papers retracted from Acta Biomaterialia for what the journal is calling “highly unethical practices.” All four notices say the same thing:

Retraction Watch, Noah Webster style, cardiology edition

Plagiarism and duplication might involve the same act — the misuse of text and/or data — but they are different species. Take it from Eldon Smith, who as editor of the Canadian Journal of Cardiology defined the two acts of misconduct for his readers: Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results or … Continue reading Retraction Watch, Noah Webster style, cardiology edition

Mean streets: Expert on lying accuses planning association of ethical lapses

A U.K. urban planner and self-styled expert on “truth and lying” has launched a forceful attack on the ethics of a key trade association, accusing it of refusing to promote his work for fear that the findings might be damaging to the profession. And what, you’re asking, does this have to do with retractions? Trust … Continue reading Mean streets: Expert on lying accuses planning association of ethical lapses

Duplication forces retractions of two 15-year-old entomology papers

A Brazilian entomologist, Claudio Jose von Zuben, has been forced to retract two papers from 1997 after editors became aware that he and his colleagues had used the same figure in both. First, the notice from Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz:

Parasitology plagiarists get retraction — and a publishing ban

Are plagiarists parasites? And what if they work in the field of parasitism — like M. Shafiq Ansari and colleagues at Aligarh Muslim University in India? The Journal of Insect Behavior is retracting a 2011 paper by Ansari’s group, “Foraging of host-habitat and superparasitism in Cotesia glomerata: A gregarious parasitoid of Pieris brassicae,” for its … Continue reading Parasitology plagiarists get retraction — and a publishing ban

One plagiarized economics paper that won’t need to be retracted

Late last year, we covered a paper wondering why there were so few retractions in business and economics journals. That post was on our minds as we read a fantastic piece of reporting by reporters at the Scarlet & Black, the Grinnell College student paper. The story concerns Brian Swart, a Grinnell economics professor who … Continue reading One plagiarized economics paper that won’t need to be retracted

How to report allegations of scientific misconduct

Given the subject of Retraction Watch, readers often email us with papers they’d like us to look into, whether for alleged image manipulation, potential plagiarism or duplication, or other issues. As we explain in question five of our FAQ, we don’t have the resources to do such investigations, unfortunately; we can’t even keep up with … Continue reading How to report allegations of scientific misconduct

“False data” forces retraction of Carbon paper co-authored by postdoc who led to PI’s suspension

There’s a new retraction in the journal Carbon. The case didn’t involve a Carbon copy — say, plagiarism or duplication — but rather an instance of fraud in a Japanese university, part of a larger case we covered last August. Here’s the retraction notice for the paper, “The role of Fe species in the pyrolysis … Continue reading “False data” forces retraction of Carbon paper co-authored by postdoc who led to PI’s suspension

C-section study retracted for being a twin

A group of surgeons in Cairo, Egypt have retracted their 2012 paper in the International Journal of Women’s Health for plagiarism, although that’s not quite what they’re calling it. Here’s the notice: