Three medical journals have launched investigations into papers published by researchers at Temple University following allegations of data manipulation, Reuters reports today (September 13).
The studies, most of which were supervised by cardiovascular scientist Abdel Karim Sabri, are already the subject of a misconduct investigation launched by Temple in late 2020 at the request of the US Office of Research Integrity (ORI).
Temple’s senior associate dean of research, Steven Houser—himself a coauthor on many of the studies—filed a lawsuit last year aiming to limit the scope of the university’s inquiry, although that effort has so far proved unsuccessful. The involvement of the journals seems likely to draw more scrutiny to the problematic papers, according to Reuters.
The ORI asked Temple to conduct its own investigation in 2020 after reviewing criticisms of multiple papers on the online post-publication review forum PubPeer. The institution’s inquiry concerns 15 papers published since 2008, nine ...
