#retractionwatch — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #retractionwatch, aggregated by home.social.
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A recent study highlights just how inexpensive and easy it is to purchase authorship in an academic paper. In some cases, it can be as little as $57.
#ResearchIntegrity #AcademicIntegrity #Plagiarism #RetractionWatch
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A paper in #Science about "In vivo direct imaging of neuronal activity at high temporospatial resolution" - describing "a method that allows for direct imaging of neuronal activity by #fMRI"
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The retraction: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec1773
The paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh4340"In response to the concerns, we reanalyzed the data. Unfortunately, the additional results revealed unexpected MR signal characteristics and did not robustly support the original conclusions."
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Reflecting that I started using #NightshiftEditor 2+ years ago:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7224353965084217344/Main point of my first post then was that there are tools to help avoiding unwanted references to retracted papers such as the #RetractionWatch data base
https://retractionwatch.com/retraction-watch-database-user-guide/and you can link tools such as @zotero https://www.zotero.org/blog/retracted-item-notifications/
or since last year even #Endnote:
https://support.clarivate.com/Endnote/s/article/EndNote-20-Retraction-Alerts?language=en_US -
Two high-profile retractions in a year and one to go: Ranga Dias is about to do a hat trick in scientific misconduct.
#VaultingAmbition
#superconductivity
#ScientificMisconduct
#retractionwatchEditor’s Note, Nature, Sept. 1, 2023: “Readers are alerted that the reliability of the data presented in this manuscript is currently under question.”