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Seals of disapproval, as pinniped paper gets yanked for plagiarism

Joseph Hoffman, an animal behavior researcher at the University of Bielefeld in Germany says he got a “kind of odd” feeling as he read a recent paper on the transcriptome of the spotted seal. Let’s just call it deja vu. The article, “Characterization of the spotted seal Phoca largha transcriptome using Illumina paired-end sequencing and development of … Continue reading Seals of disapproval, as pinniped paper gets yanked for plagiarism

Duplication, aka self-plagiarism, meets management-speak

What happens when people who study management have to write a retraction notice? This, from Management Learning, regarding a paper by Gordon Müller-Seitz of the Free University of Berlin, suggests one possibility:

How much self-plagiarism, aka duplication, is too much?

Duplication is a frequent reason for the retractions we cover. Such duplication retractions are so common that we don’t get to most of them. While many have argued that duplication pollutes the literature, and can bias meta-analyses when the same study ends up being counted more than once, others say the need to come up … Continue reading How much self-plagiarism, aka duplication, is too much?

Oh, the irony: Business ethics journal paper retracted for plagiarism

Is this the new business ethics? In January, we reported on a paper retracted from the Journal of Business Ethics for duplication. That earned the author a five-year publishing ban. This week, we learned of a case of plagiarism in another journal in the field, the Journal of Academic and Business Ethics. Here’s an email … Continue reading Oh, the irony: Business ethics journal paper retracted for plagiarism

Plagiarism flushes sanitation paper

Sometimes, the headlines just write themselves. Two scientists in India have had a paper retracted after it became clear they had plagiarized a study by a Swedish researcher. Here’s the notice for “A conceptual model of people’s approach to sanitation,” from Science of the Total Environment:

Lyme disease diagnostics review retracted for plagiarism

A review paper published in the Serbian journal Medicinski pregled (Medical review) has been retracted for plagiarising a 2002 paper published in the Croatian Journal of Infection (or Infektološki glasnik). The retraction note (in Serbian only) in the current issue (vol. 65, issue 11-12) of Medicinski pregled, published by the Society of Physicians of Vojvodina of the … Continue reading Lyme disease diagnostics review retracted for plagiarism

Authors “regretfully” retract genomics paper for plagiarism

Authors of a 2012 article in the Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology have retracted it for plagiarism.  The article, “Progress of genome wide association study in domestic animals,” came from a group of chicken geneticists in China affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture in Harbin and Northeast Agricultural University, in the same city. According … Continue reading Authors “regretfully” retract genomics paper for plagiarism

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

Magnets paper fails to stick as plagiarism leads to retraction

A group engineers from Iran and Singapore have been forced to retract a paper in the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials after the article was found to contain incidents of plagiarism. The article, “Magnetic properties of iron-based soft magnetic composites with MgO coating obtained by sol–gel method,” appeared in April 2010. Sometime later (we’re … Continue reading Magnets paper fails to stick as plagiarism leads to retraction