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Madoff retracts scientific paper1 comment

amarcus41 wrote 1 week ago: No, not that Madoff. We’re talking about Robert Madoff, editor of Diseases of the Colon & … more →

Tags: clinical study retractions, diseases of the colon & rectum, not reproducible, Spain, unreliable findings, wolters kluwer lippincott

Streisand Effect meets tough editors as journal retracts already-corrected paper by Rui Curi9 comments

ivanoransky wrote 2 weeks ago: Rui Curi — the Brazilian scientist who threatened to sue the now-shuttered Science-Fraud.org s … more →

Tags: Brazil, Curi@, Image Manipulation, immunology retractions, Journal of Endocrinology

Calibration error sends moisture paper down the drain1 comment

amarcus41 wrote 1 month ago: Scientific experiments are like recipes: With the right components and the proper steps, the end res … more →

Tags: Environmental Science, investigator error, united states, Water Resources Research, wiley retractions

Retraction appears for former Case Western dermatology researcher found by ORI to have falsified data2 comments

ivanoransky wrote 1 month ago: Bryan William Doreian, who was found by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) to have falsified dat … more →

Tags: Cell Biology, dermatology retractions, Faked data, Image Manipulation, Molecular Biology of the Cell, ori investigations, society journal retractions, united states

Spud dud, as agricultural industry potato paper gets pulled a decade after publication7 comments

amarcus41 wrote 1 month ago: Plant Physiology, the official journal of the American Society of Plant Biologists, has retracted a … more →

Tags: Agriculture, Freely Available, investigator error, Plant Biology, Plant Physiology, society journal retractions, united states

Trial irregularities earn Lancet study of potential weight loss drug tesofensine Expression of Concern

ivanoransky wrote 1 month ago: A potential weight loss drug has been dealt what could be a serious setback after regulators found p … more →

Tags: denmark retractions, elsevier, erroneous data, expression of concern, lancet

And then there were eight: Three more retractions for Alirio Melendez, all in the Journal of Immunology

ivanoransky wrote 2 months ago: Alirio Melendez, who has already retracted five papers and was found by one of his former universiti … more →

Tags: alirio melendez, corrections, Image Manipulation, journal of immunology retractions, Journal of Neurochemistry, Singapore, uk retractions

Paper by fake cardiologist retracted9 comments

ivanoransky wrote 2 months ago: Retraction Watch readers may recall the case of William Hamman, the United Airlines pilot who claime … more →

Tags: cardiology retractions, fake credentials, journal of patient safety, united states, william hamman retractions, wolters kluwer lippincott

Med student loses paper when former boss claims right to data67 comments

amarcus41 wrote 2 months ago: As a first-year medical student at the University of California, San Diego, Jessica Tang already has … more →

Tags: Authorship issues, journal of neurosurgery spine, society journal retractions, surgery retractions, united states

Not in my journal: Two editors take stock of misconduct in their fields -- and don't find much11 comments

ivanoransky wrote 3 months ago: Today brings two journal editorials about misconduct and retractions. They take, if we may, a bit of … more →

Tags: Austria, biological conservation, duplication retractions, elsevier, Environmental Science, Faked data, Freely Available, Jesús Ángel Lemus, misused data

"When we wonder what it all means": Stapel retraction count rises to 496 comments

ivanoransky wrote 3 months ago: Diederik Stapel is up to 49 retractions. Here are the latest three, from Personality and Social Psyc … more →

Tags: diederik stapel, Faked data, personality and social psychology bulletin, Psychology, Sage, The Netherlands

Author retracts FASEB Journal paper for data reuse5 comments

amarcus41 wrote 3 months ago: The FASEB Journal has retracted a 2012 paper by a group from the University of Alabama, Birmingham ( … more →

Tags: duplication retractions, FASEB Journal, genetics retractions, united states

First author of recently retracted paper has another corrected, in J Ag Food Chem27 comments

ivanoransky wrote 3 months ago: A paper that shares a first author with a paper retracted in December has been corrected. Late last … more →

Tags: ACS, Cell Biology, corrections, duplication retractions, Freely Available, Image Manipulation, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry., Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, united states

Duplication leads to retraction of 1997 paper on heart disease genes7 comments

ivanoransky wrote 4 months ago: A top cardiology researcher, Robert Hegele, of the Robarts Research Institute at the University of W … more →

Tags: Canada, cardiology retractions, crit rev clin lab sci, duplication retractions, Informa Healthcare

University of Lisbon investigation that spawned neuroscience retractions found no evidence of misconduct12 comments

ivanoransky wrote 4 months ago: Yesterday, we reported on two retractions in the Journal of Neuroscience whose notices referred to a … more →

Tags: misconduct investigations, neuroscience retractions, Image Manipulation, Journal of Neuroscience, Portugal

University of Lisbon finds "substantial data misrepresentation;" two Journal of Neuroscience papers retracted3 comments

ivanoransky wrote 4 months ago: A University of Lisbon investigation has prompted two retractions in the Journal of Neuroscience. Th … more →

Tags: Image Manipulation, Journal of Neuroscience, neuroscience retractions, Portugal

Eight papers by anti-terrorism professor retracted for plagiarism5 comments

ivanoransky wrote 4 months ago: Nasrullah Memon, via University of Southern Denmark An anti-terrorism researcher at the University o … more →

Tags: Computer Science, denmark retractions, Freely Available, IEEE, plagiarism

Stem cell retraction leaves grad student in limbo, reveals tangled web of industry-academic ties42 comments

ivanoransky wrote 4 months ago: A contested retraction in Stem Cells and Development has left the Queensland University of Technolog … more →

Tags: misconduct investigations, Cell Biology, not reproducible, australia retractions, Mary Ann Liebert

Not immune: Jesús A. Lemus earns another Expression of Concern3 comments

ivanoransky wrote 5 months ago: Jesús A. Lemus, the Spanish researcher whose work has left a lot of people questioning his data, has … more →

Tags: functional ecology, Jesús Ángel Lemus, not reproducible, Spain, Veterinary Science, wiley retractions


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