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You know those sped up videos where there’s a long line for something and someone walks the length of it? The New York Times did the scrolly equivalent for the recent Hong Kong protest, using snaps from aerial video and stringing them together geographically. A lot of people showed up.
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A former graduate student at the University of Hong Kong confessed to making “inappropriate modifications” to several figures in a 2013 paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC). According to the retraction notice, the authors identified issues in 13 images while reviewing the data; the paper’s first author, Yingying Lu, copped to manipulating the […]
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One of the world’s most prestigious mathematics journals has issued what appears to be its first retraction. The Annals of Mathematics recently withdrew a 2001 paper exploring the properties of certain symmetrical spaces. What prompted this retraction? And why did it occur 16 years after the paper was published? The retraction notice for “Invariant differential […]
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Researchers have corrected three studies published in the journal Diabetes after users flagged issues with the images on PubPeer. All three papers share a number of authors, including the same last and corresponding author, Aimin Xu, from The University of Hong Kong. Since the corrections appear relatively extensive, we asked the journal if retractions were ever […]
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A paper at the center of a high-profile case of alleged misconduct in Hong Kong has earned a correction notice. The correction replaces an expression of concern on the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) paper, which followed allegations of data manipulation. It provides some un-cropped images, and removes a co-author from the paper. However, it does […]
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The author of a paper “under editorial review” at the Journal of the American Chemical Society has told us the results the paper have been replicated, contrary to claims made by a former member of her lab. What’s more, the author said she has submitted a correction to the paper, which is currently flagged with an expression […]
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The Journal of the American Chemical Society has issued an expression of concern over “the presentation of results” in a 2014 paper about a new probe for use in imaging. We haven’t heard back from the journal nor the authors of the paper, so there’s not much we can officially say about what the journal is investigating. […]
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A group of researchers in Hong Kong and China have lost a pair of papers on liver transplantation after concerns were raised about the “origin of images” in the two studies. The articles appeared in the American Journal of Transplantation in January and February of 2006, and came from the lab of S. T. Fan, […]
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