When Parisa Ariya was invited to write a review for a special issue of the journal Atmosphere, she asked one of her former doctoral students to take the lead. But she soon regretted that decision after discovering Lin (Emma) Si had plagiarized and dupl…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Stem cell paper falsification leads to firing; Nobelist also penalized
Kyoto University has “punitively dismissed” a researcher found guilty of falsifying nearly all of the figures in a 2017 stem cell paper. According to an announcement Wednesday, the university fired the paper’s corresponding author, Kohei Yamamizu, af…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: PNAS wouldn’t let authors cite unpublished manuscript. Now, it admits it was wrong.
Question: Do you value Retraction Watch? If so, would you consider a tax-deductible donation of $25, or a recurring donation of an amount of your choosing, to support us? When researchers submitted a paper about a type of microparticle to PNAS, they wa…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: “Absolutely mortified” after unintentionally plagiarizing, author offers to step down from new post
A few months ago, Dirk Werling discovered he had made a horrible mistake: He had inadvertently plagiarized in his recent review. On January 20, Werling said he came across a 2016 paper while working on a grant and realized he had published some of the …
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Paper used to support WHO guidelines on preventing infections “has no scientific validity”
A surgery journal retracted a 2014 paper last month after discovering that the study has “no scientific validity.” Mario Schietroma and his coauthors, based at the University of L’Aquila in Italy, reported that giving patients high concentrations of ox…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Authors claim clinical trial data came from one center. It came from three.
A BMJ journal has retracted a 2017 paper that made a false claim about the clinical trial in question. The Acupuncture in Medicine paper reported the results of a clinical trial about the impact of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine on stroke, ga…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Author: “The retractions were about bureaucracy, not science”
A researcher has retracted two 2014 papers, after discovering they had not gone through the proper approval process before being submitted. The papers were part of a collaboration funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, which focused on solvi…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Marketing researcher admits to falsification, resigns
A business journal has retracted two papers after the corresponding author admitted he falsified his results. David DeGeest, an assistant professor in the Department of Management and Marketing, has also resigned from The Hong Kong Polytechnic Universi…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: UCSF-VA investigation finds misconduct in highly cited PNAS paper
PNAS has corrected a highly cited paper after an investigation found evidence of misconduct. The investigation—conducted jointly by the University of California, San Francisco, and the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center—uncovered imag…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: “Clear signs of manipulation” in paper co-authored by prominent geneticist
A third paper co-authored by researchers based at a prominent lab whose work has been under investigation on and off for almost three years has been retracted. According to the notice, the university’s investigation found that a 2008 paper in FEBS Lett…
