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Correction for MD Anderson’s Aggarwal, cancer researcher whose work is under investigation

Bharat Aggarwal, the highly cited MD Anderson Cancer Center researcher who has confirmed to us that his work is under investigation by the institution, has a correction of his work in the Journal of Molecular Medicine. Troubled images are to blame — as they have been in previous retractions, and at least one other correction, … Continue reading Correction for MD Anderson’s Aggarwal, cancer researcher whose work is under investigation

Plague paper partially retracted

Partial retractions — as opposed corrections or the full monty —  are unusual events in scientific publishing. But they appear to come in twos. The journal Infection and Immunity, the work of whose editor, Ferric Fang, is much admired by this blog, has a fascinating example of the breed in its February issue. The article … Continue reading Plague paper partially retracted

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

Are men more likely to commit scientific fraud?

Regular Retraction Watch readers may have noticed that many of the people whose fraud we write about are men. Certainly, the top retraction earners — Yoshitaka Fujii, Joachim Boldt, Diederik Stapel, and Naoki Mori, to name a few — all have a Y chromosome. But that doesn’t necessarily mean our sample size is representative. Now … Continue reading Are men more likely to commit scientific fraud?

Note to authors: Please don’t use the word “novel” when you plagiarize

Retraction Watch Rule 5.1, which governs ironic article titles (and does not actually exist), clearly states that researchers who plagiarize should avoid the use of words like “new” or “novel” when describing their research (or lack thereof). Failure to adhere to Rule 5.1 can lead to embarrassment — as in the case below. A pair … Continue reading Note to authors: Please don’t use the word “novel” when you plagiarize

Chemical engineer apologizes for “deliberate lapse,” retracts two papers from Croatian journal

A professor of chemical engineering in India has retracted two papers after what he called a “deliberate lapse” of submitting the work without the knowledge of his co-author. The two papers by Kailas L. Wasewar, then an associate professor in the Chemical Engineering department of Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology in Nagpur, India — he … Continue reading Chemical engineer apologizes for “deliberate lapse,” retracts two papers from Croatian journal

Eight papers by anti-terrorism professor retracted for plagiarism

An anti-terrorism researcher at the University of Southern Denmark has had a number of papers in conference proceedings retracted for plagiarism. Debora Weber-Wulff, who has researched plagiarism for a decade, reports on her blog Copy, Shake, and Paste that eight papers by Nasrullah Memon have been retracted after the Vroniplag website revealed similarities between his … Continue reading Eight papers by anti-terrorism professor retracted for plagiarism

Retraction record broken, again: University report should up Fujii total to 183

Keeping up with the various investigations into the activities of Yoshitaka Fujii — the assumed record holder for retractions by a single author, with 172 likely — can be a challenge. Between the journals pulling his papers and the institutions looking into his misconduct, it’s hard to keep everything straight. But we have a new … Continue reading Retraction record broken, again: University report should up Fujii total to 183

Tick-borne disease paper retracted for data reuse

Medical and Veterinary Entomology has retracted a 2010 paper by a group of German researchers who populated the article with data from previously published studies. The article, titled “Established and emerging pathogens in Ixodes ricinus ticks collected from birds on a conservation island in the Baltic Sea,” looked at the potential role of migrating birds … Continue reading Tick-borne disease paper retracted for data reuse

Can we — or should we — rehabilitate scientists who commit misconduct?

Nature published an interesting piece yesterday, titled “Rehab’ helps errant researchers return to the lab.” Excerpt: With the rapid growth of misconduct cases, some scientists are worried that preventative training in research ethics might not be enough. Nor will it be possible simply to dismiss all violators from science. Scientific rehabilitation, they say, will have … Continue reading Can we — or should we — rehabilitate scientists who commit misconduct?