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Over the past decade, scientists or universities have used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to get thousands of competitors' grants proposals. And many of the targeted scientists are upset.
Nature Plants explains how it handled a manuscript coauthored by Patrice Dunoyer, a biologist with multiple retractions to his name.
China's rewards are richest, but many nations now offer incentives for publishing in top journals.
A Chinese biologist whose team on Wednesday retracted a high-profile paper on a gene-editing technology has vowed to press ahead with experiments that he hopes will vindicate the potential rival to the CRISPR/Cas9 system.
The Chinese government finds almost 500 researchers guilty of misconduct in relation to a recent spate of retractions from a cancer journal.
Chinese scientists can be paid up to $165K for publishing a single paper in a top Western journal. The first study of payments to Chinese scientists for publishing in high-impact journals has serious implications for the future of research.
Michel Aubier downplayed the health risks of air pollution while on oil company Total's payroll
Statistical study of how names are geographically distributed suggests fewer professors are hiring relatives after 2010 clampdown.
A group of junior researchers at Cambridge have established a campaign against the damaging pressure to produce 'sexier' results
Fed up with the relentless pressure to produce reams of jazzed-up findings, a group of junior researchers at the University of Cambridge are fighting back with a campaign called Bullied into Bad Science.
Misinformation about well-being is particularly rife, and particularly dangerous.
David Spiegelhalter, president of Royal Statistical Society, says sloppy attitude to statistics leads to misleading claims and draws parallels to rise of fake news
Biologist Yoshinori Watanabe publishes extensive response
Funding agencies announce harsh penalties and stronger policing efforts.
Plagiarism. Cheating. Lying. Should these scientists get a second chance?
Fresh concerns over reliability of papers published in journals as suspicious statistical patterns prompt investigations into some of the identified trials
Research institutions should have regular open conversations on authorship criteria and ethics and that funding agencies adopt ORCID and accept CRediT.
An amusing case of plagiarism in a paper about plagiarism.
China has a lucrative market for fake research reagents. Some scientists are fighting back.
Researchers and manufacturers face possible jail time — or execution — for fraudulent submissions to nation's drug agency.
It's hard to believe how "far ahead" China is on this front until you see it with your own eyes.
Alfredo Fusco denies claims that his research lab hired a photo studio to manipulate images.
An unknown number of published studies have a hidden flaw: The “peers” who supposedly vouched for their publication are phonies.
New papers were found through investigations into previous fraud.
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine says that the US research community needs to do a better job of both investigating misconduct allegations and promoting ethical conduct.
Agency attempts to set the record straight after suggesting rise in cases.
In the latest ploy, a group of researchers in Poland tried to seat a fictional scholar onto the editorial boards of 360 academic publications.
Court documents suggest Monsanto helped “ghost write” paper
The study says DeepMind and the NHS shared data without patient consent. DeepMind says the published study has flaws
