ETH Zurich in Switzerland launched an investigation into allegations that a leading professor mistreated graduate students for more than a decade.

Fraudulent research and faked peer reviews have led to a humiliating setback for China's goal of becoming a global leader in scientific research.

Hany Farid discusses how to detect image manipulations — and the increasing sophistication of forgers.

American Geophysical Union places harassment, bullying, and discrimination on par with falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism.

Scientists hit back at a proposal to make it tougher to call findings statistically significant.

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.

How your doctor was bought.

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.

Fresh concerns over reliability of papers published in journals as suspicious statistical patterns prompt investigations into some of the identified trials

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.