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Unhappy medium: Penn State website retracts article touting student psychic

Onward State, an alternative student news website for Penn State University, has pulled an article about a student psychic for promoting “one of the most fraudulent, predatory practices around.” The psychic has been given her own reality TV show on ABC Family (an oxymoron if ever there was one). The newspaper had reported the news … Continue reading Unhappy medium: Penn State website retracts article touting student psychic

Weekend reads: Publication pollution, irreproducible research crisis, and broken funding models

The week at Retraction Watch featured an adventure in irony as a paper on plagiarism was retracted for…plagiarism, as well as another retraction for high-profile cancer research Robert Weinberg. Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Data “irregularities” sink paper on water treatment

Desalination and Water Treatment has retracted a paper it published in January by a pair of Turkish researchers for “irregularities in the methodology and data management.” The article, “Molecular simulation of Zn2+, Cu2+, Pb2+, and NH4+ ion-exchange in Clinoptilolite,” investigated how well different natural forms of the zeolite Clinoptilolite remove heavy metals from wastewater. It came … Continue reading Data “irregularities” sink paper on water treatment

Troubled article ranking business schools earns expression of concern

An article that ranked University of Missouri-Kansas City number one in an area of business school training is set to receive an expression of concern. The move follows months of questions over the ranking’s legitimacy, following revelations such as a relationship between the authors and both the school and its top ranked researcher in the … Continue reading Troubled article ranking business schools earns expression of concern

SfN journal retracts paper, bans UPenn researchers over “data misrepresentation”

The Journal of Neuroscience has yanked an Alzheimer’s paper and banned three University of Pennsylvania authors from publishing there temporarily, following conflicting investigations by the university and the publisher, the Society for Neuroscience, into the data. The 2011 paper looked into the cellular makeup of the characteristic plaques that develop in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. … Continue reading SfN journal retracts paper, bans UPenn researchers over “data misrepresentation”

Law student retracts paper from journal of Shariah law

A PhD candidate in the law school of University of Malaya in Malaysia retracted a paper from a journal on Islamic law in governments, because he failed to add his deceased advisor as an author. The paper, which calls government secularism in Bangladesh “shadow rather than substance,” was published in Jurnal Syariah, which translates to Shariah Journal. It … Continue reading Law student retracts paper from journal of Shariah law

Authors get away with throwing quotation marks around plagiarized passages. Again.

Back in November 2013, we wrote about a correction in PNAS about a May 2012 paper by a group from Toronto and Mount Sinai in New York who, as we said at the time had been rather too liberal in their use of text from a previously published paper by another researcher — what we … Continue reading Authors get away with throwing quotation marks around plagiarized passages. Again.

Water under the bridge? Hydrology journals won’t retract plagiarized papers despite university request

In April 2014, we wrote about the case of a former hydrologist at the University of Kansas (KU), Marios Sophocleous, who had plagiarized in at least seven studies, two of which were retracted by the journal Ground Water. At the time, we mentioned two other articles, in the Hydrogeology Journal, that appeared destined for retraction … Continue reading Water under the bridge? Hydrology journals won’t retract plagiarized papers despite university request

Paper on cranberries’ health benefits retracted after researcher forges authors’ names

A paper in Food Chemistry suggesting cranberry extract has healing properties was retracted after some of the authors complained they had no idea the paper was being published. Here’s the notice for “Phenolic composition, antioxidant properties, and endothelial cell function of red and white cranberry fruits:”