It never pays to take a closer look at the inside of a chicken nugget. The journal Food Chemistry has retracted a 2010 article by Iranian researchers who claimed to have used spectroscopy to examine the inner workings of breaded-fried chicken nuggets. Trouble was, someone else had already done the work. Issues with the paper … Continue reading Which came first? Plagiarism flap forces retraction of chicken nugget paper
Today, on Thanksgiving in the U.S., Retraction Watch is taking a bit of a holiday as we dig into some turkey — not to be confused with retractions from Turkey. We’d like to give thanks for the thousands of Retraction Watch readers all over the world who’ve helped us shine a spotlight on the scientific … Continue reading Giving thanks for plagiarism detection software: Catching up on retractions for the sincerest form of flattery
The editors of Acta Radiologica have retracted a study of patients with lung cancer, with a notice that tells the whole story: The manuscript “Measurement of tumor volume by PET to evaluate prognosis in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer treated by non-surgical therapy” was submitted to Acta Radiologica on November 3, 2010 and, … Continue reading In detailed notice, radiology journal retracts lung cancer paper for likely plagiarism
A Korean cardiology journal has retracted a 2011 review article because it “seriously” plagiarized a 2009 paper in another journal. Here’s the notice, which is dated May 24, 2012 but just came to our attention, thanks to a post by Marilyn Mann:
We have long (well, for the past two years) wondered about the pitfalls of publishing in one’s own journal, and here’s a case that illustrates precisely how fraught that practice can be. The journal Microfluidics and Nanofluidics has retracted a 2010 article, titled “Induced-charge electrokinetic phenomena,” by Dongqing Li and Yasaman Daghighi, of the University … Continue reading Plagiarism costs Canadian lab-on-a-chip researcher a paper — in his own journal
Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy has retracted a 2011 paper for plagiarism by two authors, one of whom, V. Craig Jordan, is a leading researcher on the class of drugs known as selective estrogen receptor modulators, or SERMs, and is credited with discovering the anti-tumor properties of the breast cancer drug tamoxifen. Jordan, who is scientific … Continue reading Plagiarism topples paper co-authored by top tamoxifen scientist
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, which we probably all should read but don’t, is retracting a 2010 paper on commercial interactions by a French researcher who combined two other articles into a work he called his own. But, true to its name, the journal takes a more, shall we say, diplomatic approach to the affair. Here’s the … Continue reading Buyer beware: Conflict Resolution Quarterly pulls paper for plagiarism
We have an update on the case of Moêz Smiri, a graduate student working in a Tunisian-French laboratory, whose bold method of bulking up his CV proved a bit trop ambitieux. As we reported back in August 2011, Smiri had plagiarized repeatedly from previously-published work, and forged the names of co-authors, in a 2010 article in … Continue reading Another retraction for grad student who specializes in plagiarism and forging co-authors’ names
The journal Digestion has a retraction notice that’s, well, an amusing morsel. At issue was a 2011 paper on a biomarker for liver cancer by a group of Turkish authors who plagiarized from the work of others. Here’s the notice for the article, titled “Diagnostic and Prognostic Validity of Golgi Protein 73 in Hepatocellular Carcinoma“:
The journal Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology has retracted a 2011 paper by an Italian nursing researcher who lifted text and data from a previously published work, and made up results to fill gaps, too. Here’s the notice: