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Not in my journal: Two editors take stock of misconduct in their fields — and don’t find much

Today brings two journal editorials about misconduct and retractions. They take, if we may, a bit of an optimistic and perhaps even blindered approach. In an editorial titled “Scientific misconduct occurs, but is rare,” Boston University’s Richard Primack, editor of Biological Conservation, highlights a Corrigendum of a paper by Jesus Angel Lemus, the veterinary researcher … Continue reading Not in my journal: Two editors take stock of misconduct in their fields — and don’t find much

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:

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

“When we wonder what it all means”: Stapel retraction count rises to 49

Diederik Stapel is up to 49 retractions. Here are the latest three, from Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin:

“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

Retraction 46 arrives for Diederik Stapel

Diederik Stapel has a new retraction, his 46th. Here’s the notice for “The effects of diffuse and distinct affect. ” by Diederik A. Stapel, Willem Koomen and Kirsten I. Ruys, which appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2002:

Stapel watch reaches 45 retractions

Keeping up with the retraction count of Diederik Stapel is proving to be a, well, staple of this job. Four more retractions brings the figure to 45. The articles in question are:

This is 40 (and 41): More retractions for Diederik Stapel

It turns out we missed two more recent retractions from Diederik Stapel. They were nestled in the table of contents of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that contained four retractions we covered last week. The notices, for “Method matters: Effects of explicit versus implicit social comparisons on activation, behavior, and self views” (cited 48 … Continue reading This is 40 (and 41): More retractions for Diederik Stapel

Stapel retraction count rises to 38

Diederik Stapel’s 35th through 38th retractions have appeared, all in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Two of the notices — for “The self salience model of other-to-self effects: Integrating principles of self-enhancement, complementarity, and imitation” (cited 31 times, according to Thomson Scientific’s Web of Knowledge) and “Distinguishing stereotype threat from priming effects: On … Continue reading Stapel retraction count rises to 38

Diederik Stapel earns 33rd and 34th retractions

Two more retractions for Diederik Stapel, his 33rd and 34th, by our count. The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, which has been a frequent subject of Retraction Watch posts recently, has retracted “Similarities and differences between the impact of traits and expectancies: What matters is whether the target stimulus is ambiguous or mixed:”