Nearly half the retractions were due to issues related to the authenticity of the data. For example, in August the United States Office of Research Integrity found that Richard Eckert, a senior ...

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More than 40% of chemistry papers retracted in the last two years were pulled because of plagiarism, finds a study published in Chemistry of Materials (2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b00897).

It appears as a terse statement — a few hundred words invalidating the claims made in a published paper. Retractions are the prevailing method for correcting gross inaccuracies in the scientific ...

Science is an activity performed by humans, so it’s inevitable that some of the scientific papers we cover will end up being wrong. As we noted yesterday, the cause can range from factors completely ...

Mistakes are part of science. But setting the record straight promptly and clearly can help to avoid a career blot. After 18 months of complex testing and re-testing, Pamela Ronald became certain that ...

Just six superretractors accounted for about a fifth of all retracted randomized controlled trials, this retrospective cohort study showed. In addition, 18 highly cited scientists who had more than 10 ...