University of Liverpool reverses course, names researcher guilty of misconduct
A few weeks ago, we received a press release that gave us pause: The University of Liverpool said it had found one of its researchers guilty of research misconduct — but did not say who, nor which...
View ArticleUK House of Commons committee wants to make sure “university investigations...
As Retraction Watch readers may recall, the UK’s House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has been holding an inquiry into scientific misconduct for well over a year. During that inquiry, we...
View ArticleGlasgow professor leaves post amidst multiple retractions
A professor specializing in the health of children and pregnant women has left her post at the University of Glasgow, and issued three retractions in recent months. All three notices — issued by PLOS...
View ArticleDr. What? From the mixed-up files of Muftah Salem Eljamel
A surgeon in Scotland who mistook a tear duct for a brain tumor, operated on the wrong disc in another patient and eventually gave up his right to practice medicine in the UK has corrected a 2008...
View ArticleGames researcher retracts one paper, corrects three others, for plagiarism
A researcher, formerly of Bath Spa University in the UK, who studies how computer games are designed, has retracted a paper and corrected three others after she said she became aware that they all...
View ArticleKetamine for depression? Paper retracted for error that double-counted...
A psychiatry journal has retracted a 2015 meta-analysis on the effectiveness of ketamine for depression after readers found that the article double-counted patients in some studies, thereby inflating...
View ArticleJournal flags papers two years after university investigation finds...
Nearly two years after a University of Liverpool investigation determined that a former researcher there fabricated his data, the journal Molecular Medicine has issued expressions of concern about four...
View ArticleAuthors earn praise — but a “poorly worded” retraction notice — for flagging...
The authors of an October 2020 paper on the genetics of thyroid cancer are getting praise from the journal for retracting their article after learning that it contained a critical error. The paper,...
View ArticleImperial College London researcher fired for research misconduct
Eric Lam, a highly-published cancer specialist, has been fired from his post at Imperial College London following a university investigation that found misconduct, Retraction Watch has learned. Lam’s...
View ArticleKCL investigation finds misconduct in Lancet Neurology paper
A Lancet journal has issued an expression of concern for a 2019 paper by a group in the United Kingdom whose work was found to have included fabricated data and other misconduct. The article,...
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