- 3,514 Special Issues a Year?Inside Higher Ed, by Jack Grove , 3/15/2023
- Frontiers retracts a dozen papers, many more expectedRetraction Watch, 1/11/2022, Ivan Oransky
- Guest Post — Reputation and Publication Volume at MDPI and FrontiersScholarly Kitchen, by Christos Petrou, 9/18/2023
- Embattled researcher Didier Raoult earns more than 100 expressions of concern and another retractionRetraction Watch, Adam Marcus, 4/3/2024
- Fast-growing open-access journals stripped of coveted impact factorsScience.org, Jeffrey Brainard, 3/28/2023
- The rat with the big balls and the enormous penis – how Frontiers published a paper with botched AI-generated imagesScience Integrity Digest, blog post by Elisabeth Bik
- A Retraction of the Original Research Article Cellular functions of spermatogonial stem cells in relation to JAK/STAT signaling pathwayFrontiers Editorial Office (2024) Retraction: Cellular functions of spermatogonial stem cells in relation to JAK/STAT signaling pathway. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 12:1386861. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2024.1386861
- Cellular functions of spermatogonial stem cells in relation to JAK/STAT signaling pathwaypdf of: Guo X, Dong L and Hao D (2024), Cellular functions of spermatogonial stem cells in relation to JAK/STAT signaling pathway. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 11:1339390. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1339390
- Exclusive: Mayo, Florida profs among authors of article tied to Indian paper millRetraction Watch, Frederik Joelving, 1/23/2024
- Exclusive: Physician in India who coauthored review with US profs is running a paper millRetraction Watch, by Frederik Joelving, 2/29/2024
Hindawi journals seems to be a frequent target of unscrupulous players- parent company Wiley is working to identify and correct weakness that likely contributed to exploitation of the journals. See also paper mills section of the 'Predatory' (Deceptive Publishing) page in this research guide.
- Wiley to stop using “Hindawi” name amid $18 million revenue declineRetraction Watch, Ellie Kincaid, 12/6/2023
- Guest Post — Addressing Paper Mills and a Way Forward for Journal SecurityThe Scholarly Kitchen, by Jay Flynn, 4/5/2023
- Guest Post – Of Special Issues and Journal PurgesThe Scholarly Kitchen, blog post by Christos Petrou, 3/30/2023
- 30+ papers flagged because editors may have “subverted the peer review process” with fake accountsRetraction Watch, Ivan Oransky, 7/8/2015
- Exclusive: Hindawi and Wiley to retract over 500 papers linked to peer review ringsRetraction Watch, Ellie Kincaid, 9/28/2022
- Fast-growing open-access journals stripped of coveted impact factorsScience.org, Jeffrey Brainard, 3/28/2023
- Nearly 20 Hindawi journals delisted from leading index amid concerns of papermill activityRetraction Watch, Ellie Kincaid, 3/21/2023
- Norway demotes Hindawi journals after claims one published a stolen paperRetraction Watch, Marcus Banks, 3/29/2023
- Red flags for paper mills need to go beyond the level of individual articles: a case study of Hindawi special issuesBishop, D. V. M. (2023, February 6). Red flags for paper mills need to go beyond the level of individual articles: a case study of Hindawi special issues. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6mbgv
- Sanctioning of 50 journals raises concerns over special issues in ‘mega-journals’ChemistryWorld.com, by Anthony King, 4/24/2023
- Wiley and Hindawi to retract 1,200 more papers for compromised peer reviewRetraction Watch, Ellie Kincaid, 4/5/2023
- Wiley paused Hindawi special issues amid quality problems, lost $9 million in revenueRetraction Watch, Ellie Kincaid, 3/9/2023
- Academic fraud: perspectives from a lifelong anesthesia researcherMutch, W.A.C. Academic fraud: perspectives from a lifelong anesthesia researcher. Can J Anesth/J Can Anesth 58, 782–788 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12630-011-9523-5
- And then there were six: three more retractions for Japanese anesthesiologist (Hironobu Ueshima)Retraction Watch, Adam Marcus, 6/25/2020
- Anesthesiology researcher guilty of misconduct in more than 140 papers: Investigation (Hironobu Ueshima)Retraction Watch, Adam Marcus, 5/28/2021
- “I want to apologize for my misconduct,” says anesthesiologist whose work is under investigation (Hironobu Ueshima)Retraction Watch, Adam Marcus, 6/25/2020
- More than 100 of an anesthesiologist’s papers retracted (Hironobu Ueshima)"More than 100 of those articles appeared in the Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, an Elsevier title." -- Retraction Watch, Adam Marcus, 2/10/2022
- Boldt: the great pretender (Joachim Boldt)BMJ 2013;346:f1738
- Anesthesiologist loses 50 more papers in 12 months (Joachim Boldt)Retraction Watch, Adam Marcus, 4/9/2021
- Anesthesiologist joins the 100-retraction club (Joachim Boldt)Retraction Watch, Adam Marcus, 1/14/2020
- Joachim BoldtRetraction Watch
- A ‘very cautious’ process: Journal retracts reviews by anesthesiologist found to have committed fraud a decade ago (Joachim Boldt)Retraction Watch, May 19, 2020, Adam Marcus
- When you have 94 retractions, what’s two more? (Joachim Boldt)Retraction Watch, 3/1/2017, Adam Marcus
- Fraud Case Rocks Anesthesiology Community (Scott S. Reuben)Anesthesiology News, 10/8/2010
- Massive fraud revelations stun orthopaedics (Scott S. Reuben)AAOS Now, Annie Hayashi, 4/1/2009
- A Medical Madoff: Anesthesiologist Faked Data in 21 Studies (Scott S. Reuben)Scientific American, by Brendan Borrell, 3/10/2009
- Plagiarists plagiarized: A daisy chain of retractions at Anesthesia & AnalgesiaRetraction Watch, Ivan Oransky. 11/24/2010
- Scott S. ReubenRetraction Watch
- Yoshitaka FujiiRetraction Watch
- How the Biggest Fabricator in Science Got Caught Yoshitaka Fujii falsified 183 papers before statistics exposed himNautilis, by Adam Marcus & Ivan Oransky, 5/11/2015
- Zombie papers: Why do papers by the most prolific fraudster in history keep getting cited? (Yoshitaka Fujii)Retraction Watch, Posted on April 1, 2020, Author,Adam Marcus. This blog article mentions the paper listed below.
- The Cancer Letter’s Past Coverage of The Duke ScandalCancerLetter.com, Copyright (c) 2018 The Cancer Letter Inc.
- The Price of Deception: How a Duke Patient was Harmed in Potti’s Fraudulent TrialsCancer Letter, Matthew Bin Han Ong, v.20, no. 41, 5/22,2015
- Duke Scientist: I Hope NCI Doesn’t Get Original DataCancer Letter, By Paul Goldberg, publication date: Jan. 16, 2015
- Duke University officials rebuffed medical student’s allegations of research problemsScienceMag.org, By Jocelyn Kaiser, an. 12, 2015
- Feds (Finally) Say that Researcher Faked DataMedscape.com, Nick Mulcahy, November 09, 2015
- Fostering Integrity in ResearchNational Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Fostering Integrity in Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.17226/21896.
- Fostering Integrity in Research, Appendix D. Detailed Case Histories.Information about the following cases: Wafefield MMR-Autism, PAXIL, Univ. of Wisconsin Goodwin case, the Hwang stem cell case, the Translational omics case, The Riken-Stap case. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Fostering Integrity in Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.17226/21896.
- It’s official: Anil Potti faked cancer research data, say FedsRetraction Watch, November 7, 2015, author Ivan Oransky
- The Duke/Potti Scandal, From the Inside"In the Pipeline, Derek Lowe's commentary on drug discovery and the pharma industry. An editorially independent blog from the publishers of Science Translational Medicine." -- blog page.
The Duke/Potti scandal, from the insideBy Derek Lowe 14 January, 2015
- Case Summary: Potts Kant, Erin N.ORI (The Office of Research Integrity)
- Feds ban ex-Duke lab tech from funding after she faked data linked to 60 NIH grantsRetraction Watch, Adam Marcus, 10/31/2019
- Former Duke researcher at center of lawsuit lodges 16th retractionRetraction Watch, Alison McCook, 11/4/2016
- Duke University pays $112.5 million in fake research case sparked by whistleblowerReuters.com, by Jonathan Stempel, 3/25/2019
There is absolutely no suggestion of fraud or deception associated with Dr Wolf's research. The 'death recorded' error appears to be an entirely innocent error, based on misinterpretation of a legal term.
- Death Recorded A Question of EvidenceNaomi Wolf and Matthew Sweet discussion of the term 'death recorded'. BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk
- Feminist activist ‘caught out’ live on air
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YouTube video, Sky News Australia, Published on May 26, 2019 - Her Book in Limbo, Naomi Wolf Fights BackNew York Times, 7/9/2019
- Here’s an Actual Nightmare: Naomi Wolf Learning On-Air That Her Book Is WrongNYMag.com, By Yelena Dzhanova, 5/24/2019
- Naomi Wolf’s Career of Blunders Continues in ‘Outrages’NYTimes.com, By Parul Sehgal, 6/5/2019
- Why Naomi Wolf Misinterpreted Evidence From The Old Bailey OnlineHistory Matters: History brought alive by the University of Sheffield, Bob Shoemaker, 5/29/2019
- The Consequences of Academic DishonestyUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Category: Diederik StapelRetraction Watch
- The case of Diederik StapelAmerican Psychological Association, 12/2011
- The Fraud Who Fooled (Almost) EveryoneChronicle of Higher Education, Percolator blog entry by Tom Bartlett, 11/3/2011
- Linguistic Traces of a Scientific Fraud: The Case of Diederik StapelMarkowitz, D. M., & Hancock, J. T. (2014). Linguistic Traces of a Scientific Fraud: The Case of Diederik Stapel. PLoS ONE, 9(8), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105937
- Scientific fraud: science as we have never seen itMaremosso, Roberta Fulci, 11/2023
- Springer, IEEE withdrawing more than 120 nonsense papersRetraction Watch, Ivan Oransky, 2/24/2014
- The Relationship Between DNS and 802.11BRetraction Watch. Example of a gibberish/nonsense paper 'by' Lannie Dog and Zinny Terriermix.
- Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papersNature doi:10.1038/nature.2014.14763
- SciDetectSpringer and Université Joseph Fourier.
Open source software to detect fake papers generated with SCIgen, Mathgen and Physgen. - Hundreds of gibberish papers still lurk in the scientific literaturedoi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01436-7
- [T]hese s*** comments: Author of a nonsense paper responds on PubPeerRetraction Watch, Adam Marcus, 9/22/2021
- How many ducks do you need to line up to get a publication retracted?Retraction Watch, Mark Bolland, Alison Avenell, and Andrew Grey, 11/4/2022
- Case Summary: Brand, Toni M."ORI found that Respondent engaged in research misconduct by knowingly or recklessly falsifying or fabricating western blot data.." -- Office of Research Integrity, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services.
- Cancer researcher faked data for 24 images in work funded by nine NIH grants [Brand, Toni M.]Retraction Watch, Ivan Oransky, 5/5/2022
- The Co-Founder Of Snopes Wrote Dozens Of Plagiarized Articles For The Fact-Checking Site
BuzzFeed News, Dean Sterling Jones, 8/13/2021 - Publisher retracts nearly two dozen articles, blocks nearly three dozen more, from alias-employing author who plagiarizedRetraction Watch, Adam Marcus, 9/17/2020
- Hands up! Carpal tunnel expert loses 12th paper for misconductRetraction Watch, Posted on October 20, 2020 Author, Adam Marcus
- Researchers face disciplinary action as dozens of their studies fall under scrutinyRetraction Watch, Adam Marcus 10/12/2020
- A Dermatology journal issue that might make your skin crawlScience Integrity Digest blog about science integrity by Elisabeth Bik for Harbers-Bik LLC. 7/29/2020. Discusses the September 30, 2019 issue of the Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences
- Retraction: Five papers from Open Access Maced J Med Sci. Vol. 7 No. 18 (2019): Sep 30 (Global Dermatology)Spiroski, M. (2020). Retraction: Five papers from Open Access Maced J Med Sci. Vol. 7 No. 18 (2019): Sep 30 (Global Dermatology). Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences, 8(B), 573-573. https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2020.5492
- When Scholarly Articles Are Fraud, Whim, or Total InsanityThe Common Reader: a Journal of the Essay, Jeannette Cooperman, 9/16/2020
- “This unfortunate situation”: Journal retracts bizarre paper about a black hole at the center of EarthRetraction Watch, Posted on September 30, 2020 by Ivan Oransky. Discusses the September 30, 2019 issue of the Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences
- Thefts Had Publishers Baffled; Now There's an Arrest"Someone was stealing unpublished book manuscripts." -- Harris, Elizabeth A. "Thefts Had Publishers Baffled; Now There's an Arrest." New York Times 6 Jan. 2022: A16(L). Business Insights: Global. Web. 7 Jan. 2022.
- Literary mystery may finally be solved as man arrested for allegedly stealing unpublished booksThe Guardian, Sian Cain, 1/5/2022
Ivy League/Tier 1 Academic Institutions
Even prestigious institutions are not immune from bias, ethical failings, research errors, sloppy citation practices and academic dishonesty. It is important to carefully evaluate all research you reference in your own work, and not assume that research from tier 1 institutions/faculty should automatically be considered as sacrosant and authoritative. All research, regardless of origin should be scrutinized accordingly.
- Dana-Farber RetractionsNature.com, by Kozlov, 1/24/2024
- Dana-Farber to Retract 6 Papers, Correct 31 Following Data Manipulation ClaimsHarvard Crimson, by Veronica H. Paulus and Akshaya Ravi
- Embattled Harvard honesty professor accused of plagiarismScience.org, Cathleen O'Grady, 4/9/2024
- Former Yale prof faked data, says Federal watchdogRetraction Watch, by Ivan Oransky, 4/10/2023
- Harvard eye researchers have eight papers retracted for lack of ethical approvalRetraction Watch, by Adam Marcus, 3/21/2022
- Plagiarism probe finds some problems with former Harvard president Claudine Gay’s workAPNews.com, by Michael Casey, 1/22/2024
- Princeton dismisses Kevin Kruse plagiarism allegations as ‘careless cutting and pasting’The Daily Princetonian, by Amy Ciceu, 10/13/2022
- Researcher whose PhD was revoked is no longer at Harvard labRetraction Watch, Dalmeet Singh Chawla, 8/2/2016
- Top Harvard Cancer Institute Will Retract Six Studies and Correct 31 More After Photoshop ClaimsSmithsonian Magazine, smithsonianmag.com, by Christian Thorsberg, 1/24/2024
- Top Harvard Medical School Neuroscientist Accused of Research MisconductThe Harvard Crimson, crimson.com, by Veronica H. Paulus and Akshaya Ravi, 2/1/2024
- Who fakes cancer research? Apparently, lots of people.Vox.com, Kelsey Piper, 3/1/2024
- Yale professor’s book ‘systematically misrepresents’ sources, review claimsRetraction Watch, by Ellie Kincaid, 9/25/2023
- Years after Brigham-Harvard scandal, U.S. pours millions into tainted stem-cell fieldReuters.com, by Marisa Taylor and Brad Heath, 6/21/2022