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One in five academics from a range of fields say they have come under pressure from journals to pad out their papers with unnecessary citations to get published, a large survey has found. Analysis of 6,672…
Recent research about fraud, errors, and other dismaying academic problems
The state of social science is strong, not weak.
Dude cooked his data, got five years in prison for defrauding the government.
From fabricated studies on changing attitudes toward gay rights to stats-skewing by esteemed columnists, we’re awash in fake data. So what’s a reader to do?
A steady increase in study retractions has alarmed journals and scientists, raising difficult questions about how research is conducted.
In April of 2000, the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia published a letter to its editor from Peter Kranke and two colleagues that…
Grad student faked data. What the Qualtrics did in the night was... nothing.
It’s a scandal that’s been quietly rocking zoos all around the world. For nearly a decade now, an increasing number of zookeepers at smaller zoos and...
Smoking gun emerges in the Potti fraud case: a grad student tried to blow the whistle, was silenced.
An investigation into some scientific papers finds worrying irregularities
The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) has become aware of systematic, inappropriate attempts to manipulate the peer review processes of several journals across different publishers. These m
Financial New for Everyone
Online discussions and post-publication analyses are catching mistakes that sneak past editorial review.
Millions of dollars in government grants are misused for fake results.