Articles by Doug Payne

Troubled journal appoints physician to fill fired editor's post

Medical association agrees to take over ownership of troubled journal

Experts welcome the new entry into academic publishing, but question some of its potential benefits

Sixteen board members leave the Canadian journal due to ongoing debate over editorial independence

Journal scrambling to create review panel and appoint new editors

Two editors leave the journal one week after publisher fires top editors

Government accused of sitting on crucial data, changing role of expert who questioned hunt

The discovery of even a single case of mad cow disease can be economically devastating.

Three Health Canada scientists, who say they were fired for raising questions about the way the agency approves veterinary drugs, have won another round in their years-long battle for reinstatement.

Court orders integrity office to reconsider report on four fired Health Canada scientists

Eric Poehlman, a well-known obesity researcher with more than 200 articles to his name, says he fabricated data in 17 applications for US federal grants and agreed to be barred for life "from seeking or receiving funding from any federal agency in the future, including all components of the Public Health Service."

In wake of Poehlman affair, academics, journals assess damage control

'Egregiousness' of conduct over almost 15 years leads to first-ever lifetime ban on US grants

Study by Chandra had been questioned since 2003

The American Chemical Society says Google's new academic and scientific search engine, Google Scholar, is infringing on its established search product, Scifinder Scholar.