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JAMA journal quietly replaces diabetes drug commentary after learning co-author is working for drugmaker

JAMA Internal Medicine has replaced a commentary they published last week on the risks of two diabetes drugs, but you wouldn’t know the new version was a replacement. One change is a correction about whether Byetta and Januvia carry so-called “black box” warnings from the FDA. The original sentence: Because both drugs already carry US … Continue reading JAMA journal quietly replaces diabetes drug commentary after learning co-author is working for drugmaker

Retraction count for gynecologic cancer researcher Takai grows to seven

Noriyuki Takai, a gynecologic cancer researcher at Oita University in Japan who retracted three papers last October, has four more retractions, these in Cancer Letters. All but one of the notices reads as follows:

Need more material for your paper under review? Just take it from someone else’s conference presentation

Let’s say you’re a researcher who’s just gotten reviews back from your latest manuscript, asking for some revisions. Luckily, you find yourself at a conference and spot a presentation that’s related to your work. So you use a bunch of that presentation material in your paper. Unfortunately for you, the guy who gave that conference … Continue reading Need more material for your paper under review? Just take it from someone else’s conference presentation

Fresh water paper proves recycled, gets retracted

A Saudi engineer has lost his 2012 paper in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews for plagiarizing from two previously published articles, including one in the same journal. The article, titled “Fresh water production from/by atmospheric air for arid regions, using solar energy: Review,” was written by A.M.K. El-Ghonemy, of Al-Jouf University. According to the retraction notice:

“Highly unethical practices” force four retractions for nanotech researcher

Sanjeeb K. Sahoo, of the Institute of Life Sciences in Bhubaneswar, India, has had four papers retracted from Acta Biomaterialia for what the journal is calling “highly unethical practices.” All four notices say the same thing:

Social sciences paper retracted for lack of ethical approval

A University of Minnesota social scientist who studies health disparities has retracted a study that apparently lacked ethical approval. Here’s the notice for “Deservingness to state health services for South – South migrants: A preliminary study of Costa Rican providers’ views,” a paper in Social Science & Medicine by Kate Goldade and a colleague:

Lichtenthaler co-author Ernst retracts paper that didn’t include Lichtenthaler

A frequent co-author of Ulrich Lichtenthaler — the management professor who has retracted at least eight papers — has now withdrawn one of his own from Research Policy. The original paper, “How to create commercial value from patents: The role of patent management,” by Holger Ernst and colleagues, went online on May 21, 2012. Here’s … Continue reading Lichtenthaler co-author Ernst retracts paper that didn’t include Lichtenthaler

MIT lab retracts Cell synapse tagging paper for falsification or fabrication

A rising star at MIT has retracted a paper after an investigation found that her former postdoc had “falsified or fabricated figures.” Alice Ting, winner of an NIH Directors Pioneer Award and named one of Technology Review’s “Innovators Under 35,” published the paper, “Imaging Activity-Dependent Regulation of Neurexin-Neuroligin Interactions Using trans-Synaptic Enzymatic Biotinylation,” in Cell in … Continue reading MIT lab retracts Cell synapse tagging paper for falsification or fabrication

Duplication forces retractions of two 15-year-old entomology papers

A Brazilian entomologist, Claudio Jose von Zuben, has been forced to retract two papers from 1997 after editors became aware that he and his colleagues had used the same figure in both. First, the notice from Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz:

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: