Renewable energy researcher with troubled record loses another paper
A renewable energy researcher who recycled material in several papers — and has already agreed to withdraw 10 studies — has lost another paper. In January, we reported that six of 10 papers flagged by...
View ArticleResearcher denies faking reviews for 5 newly retracted papers
Journals have retracted five papers by a materials researcher based in Poland after concluding the peer-review process had been faked. According to the retraction notices — which all appear in...
View ArticleElsevier to retract six more papers by computer scientist, citing duplication...
Yesterday we reported that Elsevier journals had pulled three papers by a computer scientist with an impressive publication record. The publisher has since informed us that it plans to pull six more,...
View ArticleFaked data, plagiarism, no co-author okays…yeah, this paper’s been retracted
A researcher in South Korea has retracted a 2016 paper on which he is listed as senior author because a former student wrote and published the article without his permission. According to the...
View ArticleFive retractions for engineering duo in South Korea over duplication,...
An engineering student in South Korea and a professor have retracted five papers from four different journals for reasons ranging from figure duplication to manipulated or fraudulent data. Jae Hyo...
View ArticleRetraction notice cites misconduct investigation into endowed chair’s work;...
A researcher has threatened to sue publisher Taylor & Francis for mentioning a misconduct investigation into his work in a retraction notice. According to the notice, the publisher retracted a 2008...
View ArticleControversial researcher loses 12th paper that’s “literally copied;” authors...
A physics journal has retracted a 2011 paper by a group of scientists based in Italy, noting it’s “literally copied” from a paper by the same authors. This is the 12th retraction for the paper’s first...
View ArticleFirst author objects to retraction (his fourth) in chemistry journal
The first author of a 2013 chemistry paper is objecting to his co-authors’ decision to retract the paper, which contains duplicated figures. We recently encountered a similar scenario with papers by...
View ArticlePlagiarism costs author five papers in five different journals
An engineering researcher has written about models tackling a range of complex issues — security problems in Iraq, poverty in Europe, and emergency responses to humanitarian crises. But there may be...
View Article“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,...
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