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“Lack of experience and understanding” forces duplication retractions of liver cancer paper

A group of researchers in China has lost their paper on liver cancer after the first author admitted to duplication, also known, inelegantly, as self-plagiarism. The paper, “Glycyrrhetinic acid-modified chitosan nanoparticles enhanced the effect of 5-fluorouracil in murine liver cancer model via regulatory T-cells,” appeared in the July 2013 issue of the Journal of Drug … Continue reading “Lack of experience and understanding” forces duplication retractions of liver cancer paper

Duplication earns retraction for nanomaterials paper that had already been corrected

After earning an erratum shortly after publication in 2009, a paper in Applied Physics Letters has now been retracted for the “regrettable mistake” of duplicating an earlier paper by the researchers. Here’s the notice for “Broadband and omnidirectional antireflection from conductive indium-tin-oxide nanocolumns prepared by glancing-angle deposition with nitrogen:”

Editorial mix-up leads to duplication, retraction of physics paper

A missed withdrawal request has led to doubled up publication and a later retraction for Brazilian physicists, through no fault of their own. “Atmospheric Plasma Treatment of Carbon Fibers for Enhancement of Their Adhesion Properties” was presented at an Institute of Physics (IOP) conference in 2010. The proceedings weren’t published until May 2014. In the … Continue reading Editorial mix-up leads to duplication, retraction of physics paper

Boeing engineer has two papers retracted for duplication

The editor of the Journal of Sound and Vibration has retracted two papers by a Boeing engineer because the author reused his previous work. Here’s the notice for “A component-based model for aircraft landing gear noise prediction,” by Yueping Guo:

Duplication forces retraction of liver cancer paper

BioMed Research International has retracted a 2013 paper after it became clear that it was lifted from another 2013 paper about the same subject by some of the same authors. According to the retraction notice:

Duck, duck, gone: Duplication plucks bird flu paper

If it looks like a duck flu study, and quacks like a duck flu study, and it’s word-for-word the same as a duck flu study… Zoonoses and Public Health has retracted a 2013 paper on bird flu in Myanmar because the authors had published the article previously in a different journal. The article, “Risks of … Continue reading Duck, duck, gone: Duplication plucks bird flu paper

Birds of a feather: Duplication grounds migration paper

A group of bird researchers in China has lost their article in Wetlands Ecology and Management on the migratory habits of shorebirds after the editors of the journal learned that they’d cobbled the paper together from their own previously published work. The article by Song et. al., “Ecological stability of the shorebird stopover site in … Continue reading Birds of a feather: Duplication grounds migration paper

Duplication in physics journal questions key tenet of quantum mechanics

Here’s a physics question: How is it possible to be in two places at the same time? Answer: Submit the same manuscript twice and hope the editors forget to feed Schrödinger’s cat. The journal Condensed Matter Physics is retracting a 2013 paper by a Ukrainian scientist who’d published essentially the same paper seven years earlier.The … Continue reading Duplication in physics journal questions key tenet of quantum mechanics

Oh, the irony: Paper on “Ethics and Integrity of the Publishing Process” retracted for duplication

In a case whose irony is not lost on those involved, an article about publishing ethics has been retracted because one of the authors re-used material he’d written for an earlier piece. But the authors and the journal’s editors have turned the episode into a learning opportunity. Here’s the notice for “Ethics and Integrity of … Continue reading Oh, the irony: Paper on “Ethics and Integrity of the Publishing Process” retracted for duplication

Researchers invent time machine! (But too late to avoid retraction for duplication)

A common theme in movies involving time travel is that if you meet yourself in the past, you’ll upset the time-space continuum, and cause all sorts of problems. Well, a group of materials scientists in Hong Kong seems to have invented a time machine, and learned that if if you publish a paper that appears … Continue reading Researchers invent time machine! (But too late to avoid retraction for duplication)