The high-profile retractions of two COVID-19 studies stunned the scientific community earlier this year and prompted calls for reviews of how science is conducted, published, and acted upon. The warning signs had been there all along.

After several high-profile cases, the country’s government is creating a board to oversee and investigate all serious allegations of scientific misconduct.

An analysis of misconduct investigations finds first authors are more likely to commit transgressions, suggesting they should be held accountable for the integrity of the work.

The manuscript had amassed more than 50 comments about problematic figures and data on PubPeer.

A second investigation by the school concludes that David Latchman, also the head of Birkbeck, University of London, was not involved in the image manipulation found in papers he coauthored.

Anne Peyroche, who was removed as interim head of France’s National Center for Scientific Research in January, committed scientific misconduct, according to the French Academy of Sciences.

Olivier Voinnet and Patrice Dunoyer face consequences for misconduct that led to the retractions of numerous high-profile papers.

Cell biologist Irina Stancheva was dismissed in June 2017 after a scientific misconduct investigation.

The Karolinska Institute’s latest decision includes a guilty verdict for one of the whistleblowers who contributed to the investigation.