Even though the publisher was aware of problems with a research group since 2015, in 2016 and 2017 it accepted and published 21 of the group's papers.

"Being sloppy, I just copied and pasted [Homrig’s] article."

"Integrity goes beyond avoiding misconduct, and scientific integrity has a wider domain than research integrity."

An attempt to distance a paper from a scandal in the postdoc's previous lab?

Apparently, there’s another option for Expressions of Concern.

A new paper analyzes more than 1,000 retractions we've covered.

A researcher at the U.S. Naval War College alleges that a business consultant plagiarized the paper from an article written in 2001 by a section chief at Homeland Security.

The researcher appealed the investigation findings but, according to the report, the university denied the appeal because he offered “no new objective and scientific evidence” in his defense.

"There have been two distinct responses to the replication crisis – by instituting measures like registered reports and by making data openly available. But another group continues to remain in denial."

Former graduate student Brandi Baughman doctored 11 figures in a PLOS ONE article.

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"The whole point is to cut down on waste in science," Ivan Oransky said. "Science is too important and scientific dollars are too precious to be wasting time on work that's been shown to be fraudulent or wrong."

A bumper crop. And a request.

"But what does Impact Factor mean anyway?"

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