#scientificmisconduct — Public Fediverse posts

❗ Update on the plagiarism and data falsification case: one of the articles has been officially RETRACTED

Remember my post from May 14 regarding the falsification and plagiarism of my materials in two scientific articles? Here are the first official results.

❗ The Editorial Board of the journal "Land Reclamation and Water Management" (Kyiv) has completed the primary actions in response to my official complaint:
🔹 Status updated: The article has been officially assigned the international status of RETRACTED.
🔹 Metadata changes: The "RETRACTED" notice is now integrated directly into the article's title and the international citation block (How to Cite). Any attempt to cite this material within the global scientific community will now automatically flag it as a discredited source.
🔹 Digital footprint: The changes are fixed at the DOI level and are synchronizing with international scientometric databases.

#ResearchIntegrity #ScientificMisconduct #ImageManipulation #COPE #Crossref #Academic

❗ While preparing a literature review for my monograph on the hydrogeochemical impact of mine waters, I discovered the unauthorized use of my original materials in articles published in 2021 and 2024. Both publications were prepared with the primary involvement of staff from the Institute of Water Problems and Land Reclamation of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Ukraine (IWPLR NAASU).

An analysis revealed facts that go beyond a simple copyright violation:
🔹 Data Falsification: Original photo metadata (date, time, GPS) was intentionally retouched to conceal their 2015 origin and authorship.
🔹 Methodological Anachronism: Using 2015 data for 2024 modeling renders results invalid by ignoring the major infrastructure overhaul launched in early 2025.
🔹 Institutional Failure: This misconduct by state academy staff signals a systemic collapse of research quality control and ethical oversight within the institutions.

#ScientificMisconduct #SvystunovaGully #ResearchEthics #DataIntegrity #Plagiarism

"For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop."

- Ross Andersen at The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/

#TheAtlanticMagazine #RossAndersen #AIslop #AIethics #AIresearch #SciComm #JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #ScienceEditing #ScientificMisconduct #ScienceFraud #AIinAcademia #AcademiaIA

Practical Tips for Editors: Identifying hallmarks of suspected Gen AI and suspected image manipulation by Dan Stuckey at our conference in Oslo.

#EASEevents #EASEoslo #ImageManipulation #ScientificFigures #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificMisconduct #EditingTips #GenAI #GenerativeAI #ChatBots #AItools #AIethics #AIwriting

Intercepting Misconduct - Practical Tips for Editors is chaired by Jason Roberts, with Paula Saikkonen, Dan Stuckey, and Ines Steffens.

Our final session today brings together experts sharing practical, low-cost ways to detect and prevent research misconduct - especially valuable for editors at smaller journals.

https://ease.org.uk/ease-events/18th-ease-conference/18th-ease-conference-scientific-programme/18th-ease-conference-session-7/

#EASEoslo #EASEevents #ScienceEditing #ScientificMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity

Being a "Highly Cited Researcher" has gone from a sign of having impact as a researcher to a potential indicator of misconduct.

"Manipulations have been so obvious and large that, in 2024, over 2,000 researchers were removed from a HCR list containing some 6,600 names." - Lauranne Chaignon

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/05/13/is-the-list-of-highly-cited-researchers-losing-credibility/

#ResearchImpact #HighlyCitedResearchers #Bibliometrics #Scientometrics #ResearchAssessment #Citations #CitationManipulation #CitationScience #ScientificMisconduct #ImpactOfSocialSciences

Last night I received an email from a science journal acknowledging receipt of a manuscript on which I was listed as an author.

I had never seen this manuscript. Its corresponding author was someone I worked with during 2015-2020, but I had seen not a word of this manuscript.

I replied to the journal that I had never seen this manuscript. The likely outcome is that it is rejected before peer review.

I feel terrible for the graduate student who penned the paper. I am furious with the corresponding author for listing me as an author unethically.

#ScientificMisconduct

"Power abuse and corruption by design in German research" #scientificmisconduct #powerabuse

https://media.ccc.de/v/eh22-84-the-silent-scandal-power-abuse-and-corruption-by-design-in-german-research

Two years ago, in July 2022, I was reading on a specific molecule class for a set of experiments for a cooperation partner. I read an excellent review article, but it was missing some angle, so I looked for another review article. And realized... They were the same? I checked and that article plagiarized 90 % of the original review article. I wrote about it on pubpeer. #chemiverse #publishing #academia #chemistry #pubpeer #ScientificMisconduct (1/x) https://pubpeer.com/publications/AD85BB039A6917933CC4EE362436BE

Podredumbre en la Universidad española
El timo de eminentes científicos españoles que han cobrado 70.000€ anuales por fingir que investigan en Arabia Saudí y los casos de abuso a subordinados como el del célebre Vicenç Navarro deberían hacer saltar las alarmas y poner en acción ya el saneamiento a fondo de la Universidad en España #Misconduct #ScientificMisconduct #fraudecientífico #Fraud
https://www.eldiario.es/andalucia/desdeelsur/podredumbre-universidad-espanola_132_10140453.html#amp_tf=De%20%251%24s&aoh=17245240815434&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eldiario.es%2Fandalucia%2Fdesdeelsur%2Fpodredumbre-universidad-espanola_132_10140453.html

"So is there anything that can be done to challenge wrongdoing without crashing out over the cliff? A major point made by Elliott is that whistleblowers should not go it alone: that way madness lies." - @deevybee

Dorothy Bishop reviews Carl Elliott's book, The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No.

https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/07/whistleblowing-research-misconduct-and.html

#Whistleblowing #ResearchMisconduct #ScientificMisconduct #ResearchEthics #CarlElliott #DorothyBishop

Read the interview with Kristina Reiss, professor emerita of Mathematics Education and #Ombudsperson for #GoodScientificPractice at our university, who talks about typical cases of #ScientificMisconduct and how to deal with them: http://go.tum.de/786623

📷A. Eckert

"Superconductivity Scandal: The Inside Story Of Deception In A Rising Star’s Physics Lab", Nature (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00716-2).

#Nature #Physics #Superconductivity #FakeData #Papers #Science #PeerReview #ScientificMisconduct #RangaDias #Retraction #Experiments

Official investigation reveals how #superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results
The confidential 124-page report from the University of Rochester, disclosed in a lawsuit, details the extent of #RangaDias’s #scientificmisconduct. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00976-y

Ranga Dias found to have committed #ScientificMisconduct in his work on #superconductivity after multiple internal investigations

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/report-superconductivity-researcher-found-to-have-committed-misconduct/

The anatomy of lies and #ScientificMisconduct perpetrated by #DidierRaoult

https://www.science.org/content/article/failure-every-level-how-science-sleuths-exposed-massive-ethics-violations-famed-french

as if we didn't have enough to deal with regarding #scientificmisconduct - apparently one can "buy" citations from Google Scholar https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

When a "research institute" is littered with such titles it's likely in the uncanny valley between curiosity and the other side: alienated avarice.

"...allegations are against: DFCI President and CEO Laurie Glimcher, Executive Vice President and COO William Hahn, Senior Vice President for Experimental Medicine Irene Ghobrial, and Harvard Medical School professor Kenneth Anderson."

Research for greed smears all of science in the public eye.

#ScientificMisconduct

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/top-harvard-cancer-researchers-accused-of-scientific-fraud-37-studies-affected/

In the project „Summa cum fraude,“ funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Frank Müller, Anne Holtsch, Karin Jacobs, @bachtasaar & I investigated #scientificmisconduct, the reaction of journals to reports of fraudulent information & a possible contribution of libraries in counteracting misconduct. Despite evident manipulations, journals responded with article #retractions in only 15 % of the reported cases. Read more here (in German language)
https://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-40701

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
#retractionwatch

Editor’s Note, Nature, Sept. 1, 2023: “Readers are alerted that the reliability of the data presented in this manuscript is currently under question.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05742-0

Whoa! #MarcTessierLavigne , the President of #Stanford University has resigned after issues of #ScientificMisconduct were identified in several papers he authored on #Alzheimer ‘s disease. 👉 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stanford-president-resigns_n_64b8310de4b08cd259da27be

Stanford was also where #ElizabethHolmes hatched her #Theranos scam, and where #DonaldTheDeplorable ‘s ‘Dr. Death’ during the #CoronavirusPandemic #ScottAtlas is a staff member at the #HooverInstitute. 🤔

#ThreeStrikes

This strikes me as an unusually aggressive approach for a journal to take in response to #ScientificMisconduct.

It's basically like like those photos of the people who passed bad checks on the wall behind the cashier at your local 7-11.

It feels off to me. Thoughts?

/also the graphic designer got a bit carried away IMO.

https://www.cureus.com/wall_of_shame

Paleontologist accused of faking data in dino-killing asteroid paper

The inability to produce original digital data in 2022 or identify where analyses were done is very disturbing. In addition to the alleged #ScientificMisconduct of the authors, this does not make Scientific Reports look very good. And the appearance of trying to scoop a #ECR woman is also not a good look.

https://www.science.org/content/article/paleontologist-accused-faking-data-dino-killing-asteroid-paper

via @michael_w_busch

Deep in the bowels of #FrenchBureaucracy and administration, someone discovered the solution to solve all #ScientificMisconduct. Starting January 2023, at the end of a Ph.D. thesis defense, the student will now have to read aloud the following proclamation

"In the presence of my peers. Having completed my doctorate in ...,