retraction watch

From Star Trek to ivermectin, we look back on some of the most notable about-faces in publishing this year.

The Retraction Watch team takes a look at the most important publishing mistakes this year.

Criticism of the paper first surfaced in 1994, and its author was accused of scientific misconduct.

A study estimates that 0.15 percent of genetics articles are retracted, most commonly for duplication and plagiarism.

The University of Cambridge and the University of Bristol conducted investigations of the research.

From a self-sampling scientist to the downfall of a leading stem cell scientist, here’s our naughty list.

It includes more than 18,000 papers and conference materials that have been retracted since the 1970s.

The ex-Wayne State University scientist has racked up 33 retractions to date. 

Nine of the most recent retractions from AACR journals are for papers coauthored by embattled cancer researcher Bharat Aggarwal.

H. Gilbert Welch, a health policy expert who has advocated against superfluous cancer screening, published another Dartmouth researcher’s work, according to the university administration.

The authors of a preprint recommend that journals implement better image screening procedures before publishing articles.

Robert Ryan was forced to resign from the University of Dundee in 2016 following an investigation of misconduct.

Ching-Shih Chen’s research involved anticancer therapeutics that were being tested in clinical trials.

Alfredo Fusco, a once prominent cancer researcher, has been under investigation for alleged research misconduct since 2012.

Making the list: a journal breaks a retraction record, Nobel laureates Do the Right Thing, and Seinfeld characters write a paper 

Nineteen researchers have stepped down after the journal decided not to retract a paper that they say plagiarized the work of a Johns Hopkins biomedical scientist.

New papers from a cancer journal once named as a possibly predatory publication will no longer appear in the widely used research database.

Scientific misconduct motivated Yoshihiro Sato’s three additional retractions last month; his institution doesn’t respond. 

The embattled thoracic surgeon blames his former employer, the Karolinska Institute, for losing data related to the retracted research.