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After five years, Elsevier has finally issued a notice of retraction for a paper it announced it was pulling for fraud in 2011. All of the papers were produced by a research group in Brazil; all were retracted after the publisher conducted an investigation, concluding that the NMR results had been manipulated. At the time, […]
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A paper on making emergency evacuations more efficient at facilities that handle hazardous materials has been retracted for plagiarism. According to the Process Safety and Environmental Protection retraction notice, the 2013 paper, by a group at Tsinghua University in Beijing, plagiarized part of a 2007 article by Greek researchers called “Modeling emergency evacuation for major hazard industrial sites.” (The 2007 article has […]
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