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:
Sometimes, the full story of scientific misdeeds isn’t clear until several retraction notices appear. Take the case of a group of Vietnamese astrophysicists led by Thong Duc Le. If you were to read a Physics Letters B retraction notice about one of the group’s papers, “Search for cosmological time variation of the fine-structure constant using … Continue reading Astrophysics retraction trail includes paper that plagiarized another already retracted for…plagiarism
An ecology researcher in the Congo has found himself at the center of a plagiarism scandal that has felled seven of his papers. As Science reports today, Serge Valentin Pangou’s work began unraveling in August 2011 after Wageningen University ecologist Patrick Jansen thought a paper he’d been asked to review for the International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation … Continue reading Plagiarism leads to seven retractions (and counting) in the conservation literature
Earlier this month, we highlighted the concerns of the editors of the ACS Nano journal about self-plagiarism, otherwise known as duplication. The editor of the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) — that’s radiology, for the uninitiated — has similar concerns, but about plagiarism of others’ work. In an editorial published in the journal’s January issue, Thomas Berquist notes: Preliminary data including … Continue reading How to avoid retractions for plagiarism: Advice from a radiology journal editor (and arXiv)
Safety science might not be the most crowded field, nor its eponymous journal the title on every marquee, but here’s a general rule for would-be plagiarists even in relatively obscure publications: Avoid lifting text from government reports and other publicly available references. (Well, don’t plagiarize at all, but you know what we mean.) Consider: The … Continue reading Plagiarism burns authors of fire safety paper
A cardinal (if oft-broken) rule of headline writing is to avoid the use of question marks. We think it’s particularly important to do so when the potential for ironic misadventure lurks. To wit: The Journal of Clinical Pathology (JCP) has withdrawn/retracted a 2008 paper by a group of Indian authors (from the National Institute of … Continue reading Rabies paper retracted for plagiarism, and more from the Journal of Clinical Pathology