The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) will soon introduce negative marking for research misconduct, including retracted papers and citations of tainted work. The move, announced after ...

Research has become an important pillar in strengthening an institute’s foothold in global and national rankings. The spotlight on gauging and evaluating research has opened a can of worms—there are ...

The Guardian ran and later corrected a piece on Tyler Robinson featuring a source that said they knew Robinson’s political beliefs. Breaking News Reporter The Guardian has retracted quotes from a ...

Signs of trouble are turning up at the biggest scientific journals and the publishers that host them. In December, nearly every member of the editorial board of the pre-eminent Journal of Human ...

Many universities and research institutions around the world prize high productivity. They encourage researchers to publish more articles and accrue more citations; higher counts can signal that an ...

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).

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Retractions are a sign that science is working as it should. But ...

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Pennsylvania State University has barred a biomedical engineering professor from conducting further research following an investigation that found “unreliable data” in numerous publications she ...

Dr. Sam Yoon and a collaborator duplicated images across their research studies over many years. The collaborator has left Columbia. By Benjamin Mueller The chief of a cancer surgery division at ...

Associate Professor and MTP Connect REDI Industry Fellow, University of Technology Sydney When scientists make important discoveries, both big and small, they typically publish their findings in ...

J ournal retractions are a necessary part of the scientific process. They allow the scientific community both to correct honest mistakes and to deal with misconduct and even fraud. But in recent years ...