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February: ‘we don’t agree there is an issue here.’ June: Retracted.
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inFrustrated by a university’s lack of action, a journal retracts
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in“Questioned as implausible:” Journal retracts paper because a researcher claimed to perform a large clinical trial single-handedly
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in“Questioned as implausible:” Journal retracts paper because a researcher claimed to perform a large clinical trial single-handedly
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in“This is something that we have never seen before in any study:” Group loses two more papers
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inAuthor duplicated a figure in three papers; two get retracted
Two journals have retracted two papers by the same group within months of each other, after editors were independently tipped off that they contained duplicated figures representing different experiments. The two papers were published by PLOS ONE and The Egyptian Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (EJBMB) in 2015 and 2014, respectively. According to the PLOS ONE paper’s corresponding author, last […]
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Nightmare scenario: Text stolen from manuscript during review
A food science journal has retracted a paper over “a breach of reviewer confidentiality,” after editors learned it contained text from an unpublished manuscript — which one of the authors appears to have reviewed for another journal. The publisher and editors-in-chief of the Journal of Food Process Engineering became aware of the breach when the author of […]
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Journals pull two papers after blogger shares plagiarism suspicions
Journals have retracted two papers after they were flagged by a pseudonymous blogger, who suspected all had copied text from other sources. What’s more, a third paper seems to have simply disappeared from the journal’s website, after the blogger, Neuroskeptic, alerted the journal to the text overlap. Neuroskeptic became suspicious about the three unrelated papers – […]
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Sting operation forces predatory publisher to pull paper
Sometimes, the best way to expose a problem with the publishing process is to put it to a test — perhaps by performing a Sokal-style hoax, or submitting a paper with obvious flaws. In 2014, that’s just what a researcher in Kosovo did. Suspicious that a journal wasn’t doing a thorough job of vetting submissions, she decided to […]
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Author of retracted math paper defends against plagiarism charge, threatens to sue journal
A researcher in Egypt is threatening to sue a mathematics journal if it doesn’t un-retract one of his papers. The American Journal of Computational Mathematics in May retracted Mostafa M. A. Khater‘s 2015 paper, “The Modified Simple Equation Method and Its Applications in Mathematical Physics and Biology.” The retraction notice is sparse on the details, indicating […]
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