Researcher discovers paper published by co-author in another journal
In February 2016, Albert Jambon received some puzzling news. Several colleagues had alerted him to a paper, published online in late December 2015 in the Journal of African Earth Sciences (JAES),...
View ArticlePaper retracted when co-author forgets he had published a figure before
A 2016 case study in Neurology exploring a “mystery case” has been retracted because four figures had already been published in a 2012 article. The two papers have three authors in common, but...
View ArticleQuestions swirl around CNRS director’s decision to step down early
Today, a French council was set to confirm the new head of a prominent research institute, the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). But the appointee took the job a few days early, after the...
View ArticleCaught Our Notice: Voinnet co-author issues another correction
Title: AtsPLA2-α nuclear relocalization by the Arabidopsis transcription factor AtMYB30 leads to repression of the plant defense response What Caught Our Attention: A previous collaborator with...
View ArticleA critic with more than two dozen retractions can’t seem to stop plagiarizing
A mysterious lit and film critic who built a significant portion of his career using the words of other scholars instead of writing his own appears to be attempting a second act. Last year,...
View Article“We were very uncomfortable with this situation:” French group loses aging...
The authors of a 2017 paper on how chronic inflammation might hasten aging have retracted the work because it turned out to be a collage of previously published articles. The paper, “Chronic...
View ArticleAfter 18 months — and recommended retractions — no movement in psychology case
“Dissatisfied.” That’s how Nick Brown and James Heathers describe their reaction to the progress — or lack thereof — in the case of Nicholas Guéguen, a psychology researcher whose work the two data...
View ArticleIn 2014, a study claimed high heels made women more attractive. Now it’s been...
Perhaps you saw the headlines back in 2014, ones like “Science Proves It: Men Really Do Find High Heels Sexier,” from TIME. Or maybe this quote, from the author of a study in Archives of Sexual...
View ArticleTwo retractions as yeast researcher risks losing her PhD
A team of researchers in France has lost two papers on their studies of yeast because the work was “a complete work of fiction,” in the words of one colleague. The papers came from the lab of Jean-Luc...
View ArticleFrench university rescinds researcher’s PhD after misconduct finding
A university in France has stripped a researcher of her doctoral degree after she was found to have committed misconduct in at least two studies of yeast. As we reported in May, Marjorie Petitjean,...
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