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Heir claims part of review about political scientist is defamatory, journal partially retracts

A communications journal has retracted parts of a paper about a famous German political scientist after her great-nephew threatened the journal with legal action, claiming bits of the paper were defamatory. The European Journal of Communication (EJC) retracted the parts of the paper that reviewed a biography of Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, published in Germany in 2013. The biography … Continue reading Heir claims part of review about political scientist is defamatory, journal partially retracts

JAMA: No plan to pull elephant-cancer risk paper after PETA protest

JAMA has decided not to retract an article about cancer risk in elephants after receiving a request to do so from an animal rights group. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) recently protested the 2015 paper, which found that higher levels of a tumor suppressor gene could explain why elephants have a lower risk … Continue reading JAMA: No plan to pull elephant-cancer risk paper after PETA protest

JAMA: No plan to retract article on fetal pain, despite outcry from anti-abortion activists

JAMA has announced it does not intend to retract a 2005 review article about fetal pain, despite requests from anti-abortion activists who claim it has been misused in debates about the procedure. Earlier this month, JAMA told one anti-abortion critic that it would take a look at the paper, which suggested that fetuses can’t feel … Continue reading JAMA: No plan to retract article on fetal pain, despite outcry from anti-abortion activists

Non-retraction notice: Editors explain why two similar papers aren’t redundant

Editors have published a notice to let readers know why they’re not retracting a couple of papers. One paper examined whether the results of CT scans could be used to stage patients with uterine carcinoma; the other considered whether CT scans could be used to predict overall survival in uterine carcinoma. Both papers — by researchers at … Continue reading Non-retraction notice: Editors explain why two similar papers aren’t redundant

Book publisher: Authors plagiarized “in good faith” because they cited previous work

A publisher has retracted a chapter from a book on flow cytometry after determining the authors plagiarized some material — but noted that because the authors cited the article they lifted from, they likely acted “in good faith.” We were tipped off to this retraction from the authors of the review article the chapter plagiarized from, who … Continue reading Book publisher: Authors plagiarized “in good faith” because they cited previous work

Three HER2-cancer review papers tagged with expressions of concern

The Oncologist has tagged three review papers that share a first author with an expression of concern. The three papers, which have together been cited more than 1,000 times, focus on HER2, a gene that can contribute to breast cancer. Though the papers contain errors, the conclusions — about how the HER2 gene serves as … Continue reading Three HER2-cancer review papers tagged with expressions of concern

Shigeaki Kato up to 38 retractions

Our retraction notice count for Shigeaki Kato, number seven on our leaderboard, has grown to 38. The former University of Tokyo endocrinologist recently earned another retraction, for a paper in Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics that contained image manipulation. As we’ve noted before, Kato resigned from the university in 2012 as it investigated his work for misconduct; in 2013 a Japanese newspaper reported that the investigation … Continue reading Shigeaki Kato up to 38 retractions

“I am really sorry:” Peer reviewer stole text for own paper

We’re sharing a relatively old retraction notice with you today, because it’s of a nature we don’t often see: A chemist apparently stole text from a manuscript he was reviewing. In spring of 2009, Yi-Chou Tsai, a chemist at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, was reviewing a paper for Nature Chemistry. At the time, he’d … Continue reading “I am really sorry:” Peer reviewer stole text for own paper

Sample tampering leads to plant scientist’s 7th retraction

Plant scientist Jorge Vivanco has earned his seventh retraction, after an investigation found data from soil samples were “intentionally fabricated by a third party.” Vivanco and his former postdoc Harsh Bais made a name for themselves by discovering the secret behind a nasty invasive plant: It secretes a harmful form of catechin, which kills everything around it, suggesting it could … Continue reading Sample tampering leads to plant scientist’s 7th retraction

Cyberterrorism paper under attack for plagiarizing from multiple sources

A paper about combating cyberterrorism is coming under fire after allegations of plagiarism sparked on social media. Soon after the paper was published by the journal Computer Technology and Application in 2015, Orgnet LLC, a network analysis software company, announced on Twitter that the paper took content from its webpage. The firm tweeted: