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Nobel Prize Winner Faces Investigation into Paper Integrity
Seventeen studies coauthored by Gregg Semenza have been retracted, corrected, or raised for concern, and 15 more are currently under investigation.
Nobel Prize Winner Faces Investigation into Paper Integrity
Nobel Prize Winner Faces Investigation into Paper Integrity

Seventeen studies coauthored by Gregg Semenza have been retracted, corrected, or raised for concern, and 15 more are currently under investigation.

Seventeen studies coauthored by Gregg Semenza have been retracted, corrected, or raised for concern, and 15 more are currently under investigation.

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Q&A: Potential Partiality in Scientific Publishing
Chloe Tenn | Nov 23, 2021 | 4 min read
The Scientist interviewed clinical pharmacologist Clara Locher, coauthor of a new survey aimed at detecting editorial bias, regarding her team’s findings about biomedical publishing.
Rotonya Carr, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, underrepresented minority researchers, funding, academic medical centers, COVID-19, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2
Q&A: Unique Circumstances for Minority Scientists During COVID-19
Asher Jones | Mar 10, 2021 | 7 min read
Investigators from underrepresented groups have borne the brunt of the disruption to science from the pandemic, according to an opinion piece that outlines ways in which institutions can lessen the damage.
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Making Science More Engaging
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Making Science More Engaging
The Scientist | 1 min read
In this webinar, Fabrício Pamplona discusses the importance of graphics and visual presentation in communicating scientific messages.
Frontiers Removes Controversial Ivermectin Paper Pre-Publication
Catherine Offord | Mar 2, 2021 | 4 min read
A review article containing contested claims about the tropical medicine drug as a COVID-19 treatment was listed as “provisionally accepted” on the journal’s website before being removed this week.
Updated Dec 21
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Paper Recommends Women Avoid Female Mentors, Drawing Outrage
Viviane Callier | Nov 24, 2020 | 6 min read
A study makes policy recommendations to optimize citations, but critics say it fails to acknowledge that citations are a biased and narrow measure of scientific success.
Studies Retracted After UCLA Investigation
Diana Kwon | Jul 21, 2017 | 1 min read
Most of the authors have had papers pulled in the past.
Website Flags Wrongly Paywalled Papers
Dalmeet Singh Chawla | May 31, 2017 | 3 min read
Thousands of open access papers have mistakenly asked readers to pay access fees, but publishers are correcting the errors. 
Peer Reviewers Less Likely to Be Women
Kerry Grens | Jan 26, 2017 | 2 min read
An analysis of journals from the American Geophysical Union finds women are underrepresented as reviewers, likely because editors recommend them less often.
Helping Scientists Spread Their Research
Alison F. Takemura | Aug 1, 2016 | 1 min read
A platform called Kudos helps users disseminate—and explain—their publications for free.
Ditching Impact Factors for Deeper Data
Bob Grant | Jul 7, 2016 | 2 min read
A team of editors and researchers calls on journal publishers to use citation distributions as measures of publication quality rather than relying on much-derided impact factors.
Repeat Offenders
Kerry Grens | Apr 25, 2016 | 2 min read
Scanning the literature, scientists find that nearly 2 percent of papers contain duplicated and manipulated figures, among other image-prep no-nos.
NIH Grant Reviews Don’t Predict Success
Kerry Grens | Feb 18, 2016 | 2 min read
Peer reviewers’ assessments of funding proposals to the National Institutes of Health don’t correlate well with later publication citations, a study shows.
A Literature Database with Smarts
Kerry Grens | Nov 3, 2015 | 1 min read
Semantic Scholar uses machine reading and vision to extract meaning and impact from academic papers.
Some Study Authors “Unfeasibly Prolific”
Kerry Grens | Aug 19, 2015 | 2 min read
A literature scan finds a fraction of researchers who pump out dozens of publications each year.
Researchers Update STAP Protocol
Tracy Vence | Sep 15, 2014 | 2 min read
Two coauthors on the now-retracted stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency studies present yet another revision to the published method.
Papers Pulled for Data Manipulation
Kerry Grens | May 12, 2014 | 1 min read
Molecular biologist Shigeaki Kato has two more retractions, adding to his fraught publication history. 
Collaboration Bias?
Tracy Vence | Mar 3, 2014 | 1 min read
Study finds that male full professors are more likely than high-ranking female academics to collaborate with more junior colleagues of the same sex.
New Neuroscience Journal to Launch
Kerry Grens | Jan 15, 2014 | 1 min read
The publisher of The Journal of Neuroscience has laid out plans for an open-access, online-only journal for brain research.
European Researchers Urge H5N1 Caution
Bob Grant | Jan 2, 2014 | 2 min read
A group of scientists has called on the European Commission to evaluate the risks and benefits of research that could make deadly viruses more transmissible.
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