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Nature Communications retracts much-criticized paper on mentorship
A month after announcing it would conducting a “priority” investigation into November 17 paper that claimed women in science fare better with male rather than female mentors, Nature Communications has retracted the article. In the article, “The association between early career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and junior author performance,” the authors — a trio … Continue reading Nature Communications retracts much-criticized paper on mentorship
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Nature Communications looking into paper on mentorship after strong negative reaction
A Nature journal has announced that it is conducting a “priority” investigation into a new paper claiming that women in science fare better with male rather than female mentors. The article, “The association between early career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and junior author performance,” appeared in Nature Communications on November 17, and was written … Continue reading Nature Communications looking into paper on mentorship after strong negative reaction
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Why journal editors should dig deeper when authors ask for a retraction
Imagine you’re a journal editor. A group of authors sends you a request to retract one of their papers, saying that “during figure assembly certain images were inappropriately processed.” What do you do next? Do you ask some tough questions about just what “inappropriately processed” means? Do you check your files for whether the author’s … Continue reading Why journal editors should dig deeper when authors ask for a retraction
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Synthetic Biology from an editor’s perspective: Interview with Ross Cloney
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6828-1000 If you submit you synthetic biology paper to Nature Communications, Ross Cloney is the person that will handle your case. After obtaining his PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Sussex andPosted by in featured, Interview, nature communications, Ross Cloney, SCRAMBLE, synthetic biology, synthetic yeast
“Devastating:” Authors retract paper in Nature journal upon discovering error
Several years ago, Chris Dames thought he had made an exciting discovery, a “secret sauce” that would allow him to design a device using a novel mechanism. In a 2014 Nature Communications paper, Dames—who works at the University of California at Berkeley—and his team described the first experimental results for the device, a photon thermal […]
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Dear journals: Clean up your act. Regards, Concerned Biostatistician
Recently, a biostatistician sent an open letter to editors of 10 major science journals, urging them to pay more attention to common statistical problems with papers. Specifically, Romain-Daniel Gosselin, Founder and CEO of Biotelligences, which trains researchers in biostatistics, counted how many of 10 recent papers in each of the 10 journals contained two common […]
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Two more retractions for stem cell researcher appealing her dismissal
Susana Gonzalez, a rising star in stem cell research, has had a rough year. In addition to being fired from her former research institute (which she is now appealing), one of her grants (totaling nearly 2 million Euros) was suspended. Most recently, she has received two new retractions in Nature Communications over figure duplications and […]
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Karolinska requests retraction of 2014 Macchiarini paper
It has been a tough couple of years for surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, once lauded for pioneering a groundbreaking procedure to transplant tracheas. After a series of documentaries prompted his former employer, Karolinska Institutet (KI), to reopen a misconduct investigation against him, KI has today released one verdict regarding a 2014 Nature Communications paper: guilty. KI said […]
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Macchiarini paper in Nature journal earns expression of concern for data questions
Nature Communications has issued an expression of concern for a 2014 paper by beleaguered surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, citing concerns over whether the paper accurately reports the experiments that were carried out. According to the notice, Macchiarini, a former rising star in the field of transplant medicine, agrees with the expression of concern. Three of his 22 […]
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Author appeals retraction after co-authors dispute Nature Comm paper
Two weeks after Nature Communications published a paper on asymmetric cell division in July, it posted a retraction notice saying the paper was submitted “without the knowledge or consent” of all but the corresponding author. The following day the journal “amended” the retraction note to include the initials of the corresponding author, Aicha Metchat, then based […]
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