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University of Virginia doctoral candidate plagiarizes in business ethics journal, but remains in program
We’ve already reported on the retraction of a paper in a business ethics journal for plagiarism. Yes, plagiarism in an ethics journal. But it turns out there’s at least one more case of exactly the same thing, albeit in a different business ethics journal. Here’s the notice from the Journal of Business Ethics:
Arsenic-in-the-water paper with “interesting data” first corrected, now retracted
Note (4/9/13): John McArthur contacted us with a few corrections, which we have made below. The Journal of Contaminant Hydrology has retracted a 2008 paper by a group of Indian scientists for plagiarism and the failure to adequately reference their sources. What makes this case somewhat unusual is that the journal allowed the authors to … Continue reading Arsenic-in-the-water paper with “interesting data” first corrected, now retracted
“Considerable overlap” leads to retraction of medical imaging paper
We have poked fun at Pattern Recognition Letters before for failing to catch blatant plagiarism. We probably should have held off on those jokes for this post. A group of IT researchers from India has suffered the retraction of a paper in PRL for heavily basing the piece on at least four previous papers written … Continue reading “Considerable overlap” leads to retraction of medical imaging paper
You plagiarized? No problem, says journal, we’ll retract so you can rewrite, and we’ll republish
Here’s something we haven’t seen before: A group of researchers plagiarize, are called on it, and are then allowed to resubmit a new version that’s published, while their offending paper is retracted. A reader flagged the plagiarism in the original paper, “Protein domains, catalytic activity, and subcellular distribution of mouse NTE-related esterase,” by Ping’an Chang … Continue reading You plagiarized? No problem, says journal, we’ll retract so you can rewrite, and we’ll republish
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: