Giáo sư ngành khoa học thủy sản tại Đại học Iwate (Nhật Bản) bị đình chỉ công tác một tháng sau khi điều tra phát hiện hành vi làm giả dữ liệu trong nghiên cứu về phương pháp đông lạnh cá. Bài báo khoa học liên quan đã bị thu hồi.
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Giáo sư ở Nhật bị trường đình chỉ công tác vì gian dối trong nghiên cứu khoa học
NHẬT BẢN - Đại học Iwate đã quyết định đình chỉ công tác một tháng đối với một giáo sư ngành khoa học thủy sản, sau khi kết luận điều tra cho thấy có hành vi làm giả dữ liệu trong một bài báo khoa học về phương pháp đông lạnh cá đã bị thu hồi.
Springer Nature flags paper with fabricated reference to article (not) written by our cofounder
Tips we get about papers and books citing fake references have skyrocketed this year, tracking closely with the rise of ChatGPT and other generative large language models. One in particular hit clo…
Open-access on FirstView: "Defamation Claims Arising from Research Misconduct Cases: Best Practices for Institutions" by Nathaniel Jaffe, Minal Caron, Lauren Walsh, Barbara Bierer, and Mark Barnes.
#ResearchMisconduct #Whistleblower #Defamation #Litigation
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...New Slaw column piece by PKP Founder John Willinsky -- "Is it Time to Protect the Public Interest in Research?"
"Yet, I wish to raise a couple of recent turns that suggest it may be time to consider a measure of legal oversight around research misconduct that comes to light through retractions."
Check it out: https://www.slaw.ca/2025/03/18/is-it-time-to-protect-the-public-interest-in-research/
#Research #ResearchMisconduct #Retractions #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter
Is It Time To Protect the Public Interest in Research? - Slaw
In the world of research, journal publishers are occasionally compelled to “retract” a published article. It may contain errors that posting a “correction” won’t sufficiently address, may utilize falsified data, may have been published elsewhere, may have been plagiarized, or may have been otherwise compromised. Yet the retracted paper does not disappear. It retains its […]
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00676-1There's a correlation between sexual
#misconduct accusations and a drop in citations for the scholars accused, while that's not the case for fraudsters. In both cases there is a drop in publications, and the puzzling thing is that - looking at the raw data in the original paper
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0317736 - the trend seems to begin before the accusations emerge. It raises the question of in which direction does the causality go.
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Sexual harassment allegations linked to drop in citations
But numbers remain steady for researchers who commit scientific misconduct.
📢 #Scientometric indicators in #research evaluation and research #misconduct: analysis of the Russian #university excellence initiative
👉 "The results showed that #RUEI #universities had a significantly higher number of retracted #publications in #WoS - and #Scopus -indexed #journals, suggesting that pressure to meet quantitative scientometric #indicators may have encouraged unethical research practices and #researchmisconduct."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-025-05269-3
#retractions #researchintegrity #Russia
Scientometric indicators in research evaluation and research misconduct: analysis of the Russian university excellence initiative - Scientometrics
This study aimed to examine the impact of the Russian University Excellence Initiative (RUEI), also known as Project 5–100, on research misconduct in Russian higher education. Launched in 2013, the RUEI incentivized universities to increase the number of publications in internationally indexed journals. The analysis compares the prevalence of retracted publications—as a proxy for research misconduct—between universities that participated in the RUEI and a control group of universities that did not. A total of 2621 retracted papers affiliated with at least one Russian institution were identified. Of which 203 papers were indexed in Web of Science (WoS) and/or Scopus databases. The results showed that RUEI universities had a significantly higher number of retracted publications in WoS- and Scopus-indexed journals, suggesting that pressure to meet quantitative scientometric indicators may have encouraged unethical research practices and research misconduct. In addition, different reasons for retraction were found between publications indexed and not indexed in WoS and/or Scopus databases. These findings suggest that the direct and irresponsible use of scientometric indicators as performance measures may have unintended negative consequences that may undermine research integrity.
"Blood-mind boundary"? Science gone wrong! 🚨 Our new #preprint uncovers 13 bizarre "tortured phrases" replacing blood-brain barrier (BBB) in 140+ papers.
📄 https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5131445
Auto-paraphrasing & poor review processes are polluting research! 🗑️
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Linking citation and retraction data reveals the demographics of scientific retractions among highly cited authors
Retractions are becoming increasingly common but still account for a small minority of published papers. Using a database that links retractions to the top 2% most highly-cited scientists across science, this study reveals that retraction rates varied by scientific discipline and scientists with retracted publications had younger publication age, higher self-citation rates, and larger publication volumes.
How can criminology help reduce research integrity violations?
What could meta research learn from criminology for the prevention of research integrity violations? What insights does criminology provide in causes and prevention of research integrity violations…
"So is there anything that can be done to challenge wrongdoing without crashing out over the cliff? A major point made by Elliott is that whistleblowers should not go it alone: that way madness lies." - @deevybee
Dorothy Bishop reviews Carl Elliott's book, The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No.
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/07/whistleblowing-research-misconduct-and.html
#Whistleblowing #ResearchMisconduct #ScientificMisconduct #ResearchEthics #CarlElliott #DorothyBishop
Whistleblowing, research misconduct, and mental health
Book Review Carl Elliott. The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No. W. W. Norton, 2024. ISBN: ...
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