ISTOCK, ALLANSWARTUpdate (December 7, 2017): According to Retraction Watch, Sato’s retraction count is now up to 23 and Hirosaki University, where Sato was based from 2000 to 2003, confirmed in November that a number of Sato’s papers were compromised by fake data, plagiarism, or authorship issues.
Yoshihiro Sato, a researcher from Mitate Hospital in Tagawa, Japan, cited scientific wrongdoing when he asked the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry to pull three of his publications, adding to his list of 14 prior retractions, Retraction Watch reports.
The journal announced its investigation in May and retracted Sato’s three papers last month. According to the retraction notices, Sato told the journal editors that he didn’t have his coauthors’ permission to include them on the papers and that the authors in question didn’t contribute to the published science.
“Despite repeated requests for further explanation, we have not received any response from Dr Sato’s institution,” read the journal’s retraction notices.
The now-disputed research involves randomized human studies testing various therapeutics for ailments associated with Parkinson’s ...
