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Science's credibility issues stem from the deliberate manipulation of research designs and model specifications.
UCLA professor of Law and Communication Mario Biagioli dissects how metric-based evaluations are shaping university agendas.
China’s science ministry is set to introduce its most comprehensive rules so far for dealing with research misconduct. The measures, which come into effect next month, outline what constitute violations and appropriate punishments. But critics say that enforcement will continue to be a problem.
It's been described as the 'tip of the iceberg' when it comes to unethical practices in Russian academia.
An algorithm developed to spot abnormal patterns of citations aims to find scientists who have manipulated reference lists.
Science Advances article on diabetes drug co-authored by Mauro Ferrari retracted after readers spot irregularities
Competition and conflicts of interest distort too many medical findings
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OLAF, the EU's anti-fraud agency, this week confirmed an unnamed Greek scientist de-frauded the European Research Council (ERC) of roughly €190,000. "A complex fraud involving a Greek scientist and her network of international researchers has been uncovered by investigators," OLAF said.
Draft of Brown study says findings suggest 'substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages'.
Behavioral ecologists are in turmoil as dozens of research papers involving an expert on social spiders draw scrutiny.
Eight years ago, President Vladimir Putin decreed that Russia must become a leading scientific power. That meant at least five top-100 Russian universities by 2020, and a dramatic increase in the number of global citations of Russian scientific papers. Now a group at the center of Putin’s aspirations, the Russian Academy of Sciences, has dropped a bombshell into the plans. A commission set up by the academy has led to the retraction of at least 869 Russian scientific articles, mainly for plagiarism.
Preventing unethical behaviour requires regulatory and institutional reforms, as well as lead researchers remaining close to work done in their name, says Futao Huang
Academy commission's probe of domestic journals causes "conflict and tension".
Artificial intelligence used to carry out automated, targeted hacking is set to be one of the major threats to look out for in 2020, according to a cybersecurity expert.
Alan Cooper was dismissed as the leader of a prestigious genomics centre, following an investigation.
Altmetric list of scholarship getting the most online attention shows that authenticity in science, and society more generally, is major theme of the year.
Grant and funding withdrawals should be considered in cases of sexual harrassment, say researchers.
He Jiankui's manuscript shows how he ignored ethical and scientific norms in creating the gene-edited twins Lulu and Nana.
Most agencies claim a 100 per cent pass rate with zero risk of being found out. New laws are being drafted to target contract cheating in Australia.
An insiders' term for scientific malpractice has worked its way into pop culture. Is that a good thing?
The practice was probably used to improve the children's chances of securing a university place.
Court prevents publicity for investigations into Heidelberg University Hospital cancer test scandal
Hans Eysenck More than two dozen papers by a controversial psychologist who died in 1997 are "unsafe."
Given the reality of fraudulent publishers and their deceptive practices, will institutions consider more strongly guiding author choice of publishing venue in order to protect institutional reputation?
Presidents of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology acknowledged in separate announcements this week that their connections to financier Jeffrey Epstein went deeper than previously revealed, further entangling the elite institutions with a donor who was a convicted sex offender.
