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Anita Bandrowski. Papers are corrected for lots of different reasons. In this guest post, Anita Bandrowski, who leads an initiative designed to help researchers identify their reagents correctly, describes one unusual reason for a correction — and explains what researchers can learn from the episode.. Last December, Tianyi Wang and her colleagues published a very interesting paper in Cell FORMER PITT CANCER RESEARCHER ADMITS TO FAKING FINDINGS A former researcher at the University of Pittsburgh inflated the number of mice used in his experiments, and faked data in a number of images in a paper reporting the results, according to the Office of Research Integrity (ORI). Dong Xiao admitting to having intentionally fabricated data contained in a paper entitled ‘Guggulsterone inhibits prostate cancer growth

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Posts about europhysics letters written by Ivan Oransky. Pages. How you can support Retraction Watch; Meet the Retraction Watch staff HOW FALSE INFORMATION BECOMES FACT: Q&A WITH CARL Not every study contains accurate information -- but over time, some of those incorrect findings can become canonized as "fact." How does this happen? And how can we avoid its impact on the scientific research? Author of a study published on arXiv in September, Carl Bergstrom from the University of Washington in Seattle, explains how the fight over information FACEBOOK STUDY RETRACTED AFTER AUTHORS REQUEST SUBSTANTIAL The journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking is retracting a paper about Facebook. "Bridging the Gap on Facebook: Assessing Intergroup Contact and Its Effects for Intergroup Relations," is by Sandy Schumann of the Free University of Brussels. The notice says only: This article has been officially retracted from the Journal. We asked journal editor Brenda CHEM ENGINEERING SCI Posts about Chem Engineering Sci written by Adam Marcus ASK RETRACTION WATCH: WHAT’S A REVIEWER TO DO Another installment of Ask Retraction Watch: I reviewed an article for two different journals that presented data from a large non-public data set. A previous publication from the same group had presented findings on the same topic from the dataset, but the new paper didn't mention these previous analyses. The new paper had more detailed

analyses.

IMPROPER CITATION, PUBPEER COMMENT SNOWBALLS INTO DOUBLE ChemPhysChem is retracting a pair of articles by a group of researchers in China and their colleagues who pieced together the work from two previously published articles. The papers appeared in 2012 and 2015, and were flagged by a reader whose own work had been improperly cited, according to the editor of the journal. The 2012

WRONG REAGENTS

Anita Bandrowski. Papers are corrected for lots of different reasons. In this guest post, Anita Bandrowski, who leads an initiative designed to help researchers identify their reagents correctly, describes one unusual reason for a correction — and explains what researchers can learn from the episode.. Last December, Tianyi Wang and her colleagues published a very interesting paper in Cell FORMER PITT CANCER RESEARCHER ADMITS TO FAKING FINDINGS A former researcher at the University of Pittsburgh inflated the number of mice used in his experiments, and faked data in a number of images in a paper reporting the results, according to the Office of Research Integrity (ORI). Dong Xiao admitting to having intentionally fabricated data contained in a paper entitled ‘Guggulsterone inhibits prostate cancer growth

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Posts about europhysics letters written by Ivan Oransky. Pages. How you can support Retraction Watch; Meet the Retraction Watch staff HOW FALSE INFORMATION BECOMES FACT: Q&A WITH CARL Not every study contains accurate information -- but over time, some of those incorrect findings can become canonized as "fact." How does this happen? And how can we avoid its impact on the scientific research? Author of a study published on arXiv in September, Carl Bergstrom from the University of Washington in Seattle, explains how the fight over information FACEBOOK STUDY RETRACTED AFTER AUTHORS REQUEST SUBSTANTIAL The journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking is retracting a paper about Facebook. "Bridging the Gap on Facebook: Assessing Intergroup Contact and Its Effects for Intergroup Relations," is by Sandy Schumann of the Free University of Brussels. The notice says only: This article has been officially retracted from the Journal. We asked journal editor Brenda CHEM ENGINEERING SCI Posts about Chem Engineering Sci written by Adam Marcus ASK RETRACTION WATCH: WHAT’S A REVIEWER TO DO Another installment of Ask Retraction Watch: I reviewed an article for two different journals that presented data from a large non-public data set. A previous publication from the same group had presented findings on the same topic from the dataset, but the new paper didn't mention these previous analyses. The new paper had more detailed

analyses.

IMPROPER CITATION, PUBPEER COMMENT SNOWBALLS INTO DOUBLE ChemPhysChem is retracting a pair of articles by a group of researchers in China and their colleagues who pieced together the work from two previously published articles. The papers appeared in 2012 and 2015, and were flagged by a reader whose own work had been improperly cited, according to the editor of the journal. The 2012

WRONG REAGENTS

Anita Bandrowski. Papers are corrected for lots of different reasons. In this guest post, Anita Bandrowski, who leads an initiative designed to help researchers identify their reagents correctly, describes one unusual reason for a correction — and explains what researchers can learn from the episode.. Last December, Tianyi Wang and her colleagues published a very interesting paper in Cell

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Posts about europhysics letters written by Ivan Oransky. Pages. How you can support Retraction Watch; Meet the Retraction Watch staff FORMER PITT CANCER RESEARCHER ADMITS TO FAKING FINDINGS A former researcher at the University of Pittsburgh inflated the number of mice used in his experiments, and faked data in a number of images in a paper reporting the results, according to the Office of Research Integrity (ORI). Dong Xiao admitting to having intentionally fabricated data contained in a paper entitled ‘Guggulsterone inhibits prostate cancer growth FACEBOOK STUDY RETRACTED AFTER AUTHORS REQUEST SUBSTANTIAL The journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking is retracting a paper about Facebook. "Bridging the Gap on Facebook: Assessing Intergroup Contact and Its Effects for Intergroup Relations," is by Sandy Schumann of the Free University of Brussels. The notice says only: This article has been officially retracted from the Journal. We asked journal editor Brenda CHEM ENGINEERING SCI Posts about Chem Engineering Sci written by Adam Marcus ASK RETRACTION WATCH: WHAT’S A REVIEWER TO DO Another installment of Ask Retraction Watch: I reviewed an article for two different journals that presented data from a large non-public data set. A previous publication from the same group had presented findings on the same topic from the dataset, but the new paper didn't mention these previous analyses. The new paper had more detailed

analyses.

IMPROPER CITATION, PUBPEER COMMENT SNOWBALLS INTO DOUBLE ChemPhysChem is retracting a pair of articles by a group of researchers in China and their colleagues who pieced together the work from two previously published articles. The papers appeared in 2012 and 2015, and were flagged by a reader whose own work had been improperly cited, according to the editor of the journal. The 2012 “UNUSUAL ASPECTS” OF A FIGURE "In the original version of this Article, there were unusual aspects to the ‘Extract fecal DNA’ illustration in figure 1. These features have been removed." With those 25 words, "one of the greatest scientific Easter eggs in a long time" or an image that was "highly unethical," depending on your point of view, disappeared from

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Anita Bandrowski. Papers are corrected for lots of different reasons. In this guest post, Anita Bandrowski, who leads an initiative designed to help researchers identify their reagents correctly, describes one unusual reason for a correction — and explains what researchers can learn from the episode.. Last December, Tianyi Wang and her colleagues published a very interesting paper in Cell

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Posts about europhysics letters written by Ivan Oransky. Pages. How you can support Retraction Watch; Meet the Retraction Watch staff FORMER PITT CANCER RESEARCHER ADMITS TO FAKING FINDINGS A former researcher at the University of Pittsburgh inflated the number of mice used in his experiments, and faked data in a number of images in a paper reporting the results, according to the Office of Research Integrity (ORI). Dong Xiao admitting to having intentionally fabricated data contained in a paper entitled ‘Guggulsterone inhibits prostate cancer growth FACEBOOK STUDY RETRACTED AFTER AUTHORS REQUEST SUBSTANTIAL The journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking is retracting a paper about Facebook. "Bridging the Gap on Facebook: Assessing Intergroup Contact and Its Effects for Intergroup Relations," is by Sandy Schumann of the Free University of Brussels. The notice says only: This article has been officially retracted from the Journal. We asked journal editor Brenda CHEM ENGINEERING SCI Posts about Chem Engineering Sci written by Adam Marcus ASK RETRACTION WATCH: WHAT’S A REVIEWER TO DO Another installment of Ask Retraction Watch: I reviewed an article for two different journals that presented data from a large non-public data set. A previous publication from the same group had presented findings on the same topic from the dataset, but the new paper didn't mention these previous analyses. The new paper had more detailed

analyses.

IMPROPER CITATION, PUBPEER COMMENT SNOWBALLS INTO DOUBLE ChemPhysChem is retracting a pair of articles by a group of researchers in China and their colleagues who pieced together the work from two previously published articles. The papers appeared in 2012 and 2015, and were flagged by a reader whose own work had been improperly cited, according to the editor of the journal. The 2012 “UNUSUAL ASPECTS” OF A FIGURE "In the original version of this Article, there were unusual aspects to the ‘Extract fecal DNA’ illustration in figure 1. These features have been removed." With those 25 words, "one of the greatest scientific Easter eggs in a long time" or an image that was "highly unethical," depending on your point of view, disappeared from J CONTROLLED RELEASE A biomaterials researcher has lost four more papers for figure-related issues such as duplications, bringing his total to seven retractions. We previously reported on three retractions — two by the Journal of Controlled Release (JCR) — of papers co-authored by Hossein Hosseinkhani, who is currently based at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in Taipei. PERCEPTION – RETRACTION WATCH Posts about Perception written by Shannon Palus and Alison McCook

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Anita Bandrowski. Papers are corrected for lots of different reasons. In this guest post, Anita Bandrowski, who leads an initiative designed to help researchers identify their reagents correctly, describes one unusual reason for a correction — and explains what researchers can learn from the episode.. Last December, Tianyi Wang and her colleagues published a very interesting paper in Cell

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Posts about europhysics letters written by Ivan Oransky. Pages. How you can support Retraction Watch; Meet the Retraction Watch staff CHEM ENGINEERING SCI Posts about Chem Engineering Sci written by Adam Marcus ASK RETRACTION WATCH: WHAT’S A REVIEWER TO DO Another installment of Ask Retraction Watch: I reviewed an article for two different journals that presented data from a large non-public data set. A previous publication from the same group had presented findings on the same topic from the dataset, but the new paper didn't mention these previous analyses. The new paper had more detailed

analyses.

FACEBOOK STUDY RETRACTED AFTER AUTHORS REQUEST SUBSTANTIAL The journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking is retracting a paper about Facebook. "Bridging the Gap on Facebook: Assessing Intergroup Contact and Its Effects for Intergroup Relations," is by Sandy Schumann of the Free University of Brussels. The notice says only: This article has been officially retracted from the Journal. We asked journal editor Brenda FORMER PITT CANCER RESEARCHER ADMITS TO FAKING FINDINGS A former researcher at the University of Pittsburgh inflated the number of mice used in his experiments, and faked data in a number of images in a paper reporting the results, according to the Office of Research Integrity (ORI). Dong Xiao admitting to having intentionally fabricated data contained in a paper entitled ‘Guggulsterone inhibits prostate cancer growth “UNUSUAL ASPECTS” OF A FIGURE "In the original version of this Article, there were unusual aspects to the ‘Extract fecal DNA’ illustration in figure 1. These features have been removed." With those 25 words, "one of the greatest scientific Easter eggs in a long time" or an image that was "highly unethical," depending on your point of view, disappeared from IMPROPER CITATION, PUBPEER COMMENT SNOWBALLS INTO DOUBLE ChemPhysChem is retracting a pair of articles by a group of researchers in China and their colleagues who pieced together the work from two previously published articles. The papers appeared in 2012 and 2015, and were flagged by a reader whose own work had been improperly cited, according to the editor of the journal. The 2012 J CONTROLLED RELEASE A biomaterials researcher has lost four more papers for figure-related issues such as duplications, bringing his total to seven retractions. We previously reported on three retractions — two by the Journal of Controlled Release (JCR) — of papers co-authored by Hossein Hosseinkhani, who is currently based at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in Taipei. PERCEPTION – RETRACTION WATCH Posts about Perception written by Shannon Palus and Alison McCook

WRONG REAGENTS

Anita Bandrowski. Papers are corrected for lots of different reasons. In this guest post, Anita Bandrowski, who leads an initiative designed to help researchers identify their reagents correctly, describes one unusual reason for a correction — and explains what researchers can learn from the episode.. Last December, Tianyi Wang and her colleagues published a very interesting paper in Cell

EUROPHYSICS LETTERS

Posts about europhysics letters written by Ivan Oransky. Pages. How you can support Retraction Watch; Meet the Retraction Watch staff CHEM ENGINEERING SCI Posts about Chem Engineering Sci written by Adam Marcus ASK RETRACTION WATCH: WHAT’S A REVIEWER TO DO Another installment of Ask Retraction Watch: I reviewed an article for two different journals that presented data from a large non-public data set. A previous publication from the same group had presented findings on the same topic from the dataset, but the new paper didn't mention these previous analyses. The new paper had more detailed

analyses.

FACEBOOK STUDY RETRACTED AFTER AUTHORS REQUEST SUBSTANTIAL The journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking is retracting a paper about Facebook. "Bridging the Gap on Facebook: Assessing Intergroup Contact and Its Effects for Intergroup Relations," is by Sandy Schumann of the Free University of Brussels. The notice says only: This article has been officially retracted from the Journal. We asked journal editor Brenda FORMER PITT CANCER RESEARCHER ADMITS TO FAKING FINDINGS A former researcher at the University of Pittsburgh inflated the number of mice used in his experiments, and faked data in a number of images in a paper reporting the results, according to the Office of Research Integrity (ORI). Dong Xiao admitting to having intentionally fabricated data contained in a paper entitled ‘Guggulsterone inhibits prostate cancer growth “UNUSUAL ASPECTS” OF A FIGURE "In the original version of this Article, there were unusual aspects to the ‘Extract fecal DNA’ illustration in figure 1. These features have been removed." With those 25 words, "one of the greatest scientific Easter eggs in a long time" or an image that was "highly unethical," depending on your point of view, disappeared from IMPROPER CITATION, PUBPEER COMMENT SNOWBALLS INTO DOUBLE ChemPhysChem is retracting a pair of articles by a group of researchers in China and their colleagues who pieced together the work from two previously published articles. The papers appeared in 2012 and 2015, and were flagged by a reader whose own work had been improperly cited, according to the editor of the journal. The 2012

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The week at Retraction Watch featured: * The retraction of a paper claiming that aerosolized coronavirus spread much further than previously thought * Two Elsevier journals that haven’t retracted papers a year after a university asked them to * The retraction of a paper in Science on electromagnetics * A Springer Nature journal that took four years to retract a

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retracting the articles because the exciting data resulted from experimental error. To be precise: unbeknownst to them, inadvertent heating of their samples had contaminated their data. The first author of both articles is Chanchal Sow , of the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur. The last author on both is Yoshiteru Maeno

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FORMER UCSD PROF WHO RESIGNED AMID INVESTIGATION INTO CHINA TIES HAS PAPER FLAGGED FOR USING THE WRONG TEST

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_Science Translational Medicine_ has issued an expression of concern about a 2020 paper on the genetics of colorectal cancer by a group in China whose results were pegged on a test that couldn’t have produced the findings. The article, “Circulating tumor DNA methylation profiles enable early diagnosis, prognosis prediction, and screening for colorectal cancer,” appeared in January, with authors from both academia and an outfit called the Guangzhou Youze Biological Pharmaceutical Technology

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A YEAR AFTER A UNIVERSITY ASKED TWO ELSEVIER JOURNALS TO RETRACT PAPERS, THEY HAVEN’T How long should a retraction take? As Retraction Watch readers may recall, that’s a question we ask often. In 2018, for example, we wrote a post noting that nearly two years after the University of Maryland, Baltimore, had requested retractions, the journals had done nothing

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After more than four years of doing, well, not much, evidently, _Scientific Reports_ — a Springer Nature title — has retracted a paper which plagiarized from the bachelor’s thesis of a Hungarian

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The article, “Modified box dimension and average weighted receiving time on the weighted fractal networks,” was purportedly written by a group of researchers from China led by Meifeng Dai, of the Nonlinear Scientific Research Center at Jiangsu University. Except it wasn’t. As the retraction notice

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Comments on An author realized a paper had plagiarized his thesis. It took the journal four years to retract it. WEEKEND READS: THE EFFECTS OF CORONAVIRUS ON THE LITERATURE; A STING INVOLVING BIG BIRD; A MADE-UP NAME APPEARS IN A MEDICAL JOURNAL B_efore we present this week’s Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and

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The week at Retraction Watch featured: * More questions about a paper about hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19

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* More than 40 retractions or expressions of concern for papers that likely reported on organ transplants from executed prisoners in China

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* The tale of the secret publishing ban

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* A paper that plagiarized a paper that plagiarized — but isn’t

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THE TALE OF THE SECRET PUBLISHING BAN We have an update on a post we published late last month. We reported on March 31 that Tissue Engineering had retracted a paper by Xing Wei, of the, National Engineering Research Center of Genetic Medicine at Jinan University, in Guangzhou, China, because of image manipulation. The retraction notice for that paper, “Use of Decellularized Scaffolds Combined with Hyaluronic Acid and Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor for Skin Tissue Engineering, referred to another paper in the journal that was being retracted, but had not yet been. It also referred to a paper in a different journal

that

showed signs of misconduct, but that had yet to be retracted, either. We were checking this week to see if the other papers had been retracted, mostly just to make sure our database was up to date. The second paper

, Promoting

the Recovery of Injured Liver with Poly (3-Hydroxybutyrate-Co-3-Hydroxyvalerate-Co-3-Hydroxyhexanoate) Scaffolds Loaded with Umbilical Cord-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells, has indeed been retracted, although the one

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_Tissue Engineering Constructs and Cell Substrates_ has not. What was far more interesting, however, was that when we looked at a retraction notice for the first paper, we saw something we hadn’t seen in it before: Wei had earned an “indefinite ban” from publishing in the journal: Continue reading The tale of the secret publishing ban

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Journals have retracted 30 papers, and added expressions of concern to 13 more, because the research likely involved organs from executed

prisoners in China.

The issue surfaced as early as 2016

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