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Retraction cites “unintended excessive reuse” in commentary — of paper it was praising

We here at Retraction Watch HQ are always on the lookout for euphemisms for plagiarism (and other misconduct, of course). Among our favorites are “referencing failure” and the journal that allowed researchers to call plagiarism an “approach” to writing. Here’s a new one that’s sure to do well with voters. The journal Rejuvenation Research has … Continue reading Retraction cites “unintended excessive reuse” in commentary — of paper it was praising

Authors hit for image manipulation cycle, but don’t worry, they’ll resubmit retracted paper

Regrets were had, mistakes were made, but gosh-darn-it, they’re gonna resubmit that retracted paper in the future. Such is the message from a retraction of “Tsg101 Interacts with Herpes Simplex Virus 1 VP1/2 and Is a Substrate of VP1/2 Ubiquitin-Specific Protease Domain Activity,” from Italian virologists who admitted to copying and pasting their way into the … Continue reading Authors hit for image manipulation cycle, but don’t worry, they’ll resubmit retracted paper

Don’t feel so bad, The Aging Male: It happens to lots of journals

The Aging Male (the journal, not the demographic) is retracting a 2013 paper by a group of Chinese researchers who’d published the same work — more or less — in a Chinese title. The article, “Testosterone therapy improves psychological distress and health-related quality of life in Chinese men with symptomatic late-onset hypogonadism patients,” came from a … Continue reading Don’t feel so bad, The Aging Male: It happens to lots of journals

Half of researchers have reported trouble reproducing published findings: MD Anderson survey

Readers of this blog — and anyone who has been following the Anil Potti saga — know that MD Anderson Cancer Center was the source of initial concerns about the reproducibility of the studies Potti, and his supervisor, Joseph Nevins, were publishing in high profile journals. So the Houston institution has a rep for dealing … Continue reading Half of researchers have reported trouble reproducing published findings: MD Anderson survey

Diabetes paper retracted for “misgrouping errors” that remain under investigation

A group of researchers at the University of Minnesota have retracted a paper in Diabetes for image problems, but exactly what happened is still under investigation. Here’s the notice:

Authors retract CT scan-cancer paper, citing faulty data

A group of cancer researchers in Japan has retracted their 2011 paper in the journal Medicine. The reason: They seem to have had some trouble — well, perhaps a bit more than some — with their patient population. The article, titled “Usefulness of systemic CT scanning in the detection of malignant lymphadenopathy,” came from the … Continue reading Authors retract CT scan-cancer paper, citing faulty data

ORI finds former North Carolina company lab tech faked data in NIH grant

The Office of Research Integrity has sanctioned a former technician at a North Carolina technology firm after concluding that the researcher fabricated data while working on a project funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The researcher, Matthew Poore, was a technician at Advanced Liquid Logic when he committed the misconduct, according … Continue reading ORI finds former North Carolina company lab tech faked data in NIH grant

Streisand Effect meets tough editors as journal retracts already-corrected paper by Rui Curi

Rui Curi — the Brazilian scientist who threatened to sue the now-shuttered Science-Fraud.org site for criticizing his work — has rung up his second retraction, this one for a paper that he corrected earlier this year. Here’s the Journal of Endocrinology notice, whose headers and language are a bit confusing, understandably, because it is retracting … Continue reading Streisand Effect meets tough editors as journal retracts already-corrected paper by Rui Curi

Authors retract already-corrected Nature malaria paper

Nature is retracting a 2010 paper by a team from Princeton and Drexel on the workings of Plasmodium falciparum, which causes malaria in people. How that came about seems to have been a winding road. The article — a research letter — titled “Branched tricarboxylic acid metabolism in Plasmodium falciparum,” came from the Princeton lab … Continue reading Authors retract already-corrected Nature malaria paper

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: