Weekend reads: Trying unsuccessfully to correct the scientific record; drug company funding and research
There were lots of pieces about scientific misconduct, publishing, and related issues posted around the web this week, so without further ado:
Search Results for: plagiarism
Journal reveals real reason for retraction of paper by author who threatened to sue Retraction Watch
Last week, we reported on the retraction of a paper by Benjamin Jacob Hayempour, a researcher who had threatened to sue us last month for even reporting on another of his retractions. The journal, Cureus, told us at the time that the retraction — in which the article disappeared, without a notice — didn’t have … Continue reading Journal reveals real reason for retraction of paper by author who threatened to sue Retraction Watch
Jeffrey Beall scores a retraction
Jeffrey Beall, a scholarly librarian perhaps known best for his list of possible predatory journals, has convinced one of those journals to retract a paper for plagiarism. Here’s the notice: from the Journal of Advances in Internal Medicine, the official journal of the Society of Internal Medicine of Nepal.
Author who threatened to sue Retraction Watch has another paper withdrawn
Benjamin Jacob Hayempour, the researcher who threatened to sue us for asking questions about a retraction for plagiarism, has had another paper withdrawn. The paper, published online in the journal Cureus, was titled “Novel Determinants of Tumour Radiosensitivity Post-Large-Scale Compound Library Screening” and had been available at http://www.cureus.com/articles/2394-novel-determinants-of-tumour-radiosensitivity-post-large-scale-compound-library-screening since January 13, but that URL now … Continue reading Author who threatened to sue Retraction Watch has another paper withdrawn
“Climate skeptic” journal shuttered following “malpractice” in “nepotistic” reviewer selections
The publisher of a journal apparently favored by climate change skeptics has shuttered it, saying that the editors changed the aim of the title and committed malpractice by using a peer reviewer selection process based on nepotism. Here’s the notice:
Fraud topples second neuroscience word processing paper
We have a second retraction from a group of neuroscience researchers in Belgium who discovered fatal errors in their work on how the brain sets about the task of reading written language. Spoiler alert: Turns out those errors weren’t errors after all. As we reported back in May, the group, from the University of Leuven, … Continue reading Fraud topples second neuroscience word processing paper
Weekend reads: Waste in research, a praise-worthy swift correction in NEJM, and more
The first full week of 2014 featured a slew of stories and commentary about scientific publishing and related issues. Here’s a sampling:
Anti-terrorism researcher notches ninth retraction — or does he?
A year ago, we wrote about eight retractions by Nasrullah Memon, an anti-terrorism researcher at the University of Southern Denmark, for plagiarism. He seems to has another retraction, although that may be in dispute. As Debora Weber-Wulff reports, Memon’s chapter in Advanced Data Mining and Applications, which “constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International … Continue reading Anti-terrorism researcher notches ninth retraction — or does he?
Another retraction for sex researcher Weijmar Schultz
Willibrord Weijmar Schultz, the Groningen sex researcher (and Ig Nobel winner) who misused the 1985 thesis of an American scholar, and the work of another researcher, in at least five published articles, has tallied another retraction in the affair, his sixth. As we reported earlier, Schultz had been cleared of plagiarism but found to have … Continue reading Another retraction for sex researcher Weijmar Schultz
Jonah Lehrer’s German publisher will release adjusted version of Imagine sans fabricated quotes
An edited version of Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine, the book withdrawn from shelves in 2012 by his publisher Houghton Mifflin because he had fabricated quotes by Bob Dylan, will be released in Germany next month, according to a report in the German media. In a story titled “Free ride for the falsifier” (“Freie Fahrt für den … Continue reading Jonah Lehrer’s German publisher will release adjusted version of Imagine sans fabricated quotes