More than a dozen universities have used "questionable authorship practices" to inflate their publication metrics, authors of a new study, published January 5 in Quantitative Science Studies say. ...

Springer Nature, the stalwart publisher of scientific journals including the prestigious Nature as well as the nearly 200-year-old magazine Scientific American, is ...

A 2014 paper in Science, "Mitosis Inhibits DNA Double-Strand Break Repair to Guard Against Telomere Fusions" is from the lab of Daniel Durocher, a professor of molecular genetics at the University of Toronto has been retracted after a December 2024  expression of concern raised "potential data integrity issues"...

A biotech company whose CEO faced allegations of manipulating data in papers used in NIH grant applications will pay a settlement of $4 million to resolve those allegations.

The settlement is the latest installment in...

Journalists have revealed that nine scientists in Japan co-authored journal articles with North Korean researchers in recent years, possibly violating U.N. sanctions that bar scientific cooperation...

Chemosphere, the Elsevier title which in September published an article on “unexpected exposure to toxic flame retardants in household items” such as black plastic cooking utensils...

On November 12, 2024 Richard Addante, an associate editor at the journal Frontiers in Psychology, received an alarming email from someone purporting to be a faculty member at a university in China: "I have a lot of papers to publish...

A journal formerly published by Hindawi has yet to publish any sort of notice on a paper sleuths reported for containing duplicated images 1.5 years ago. The article, "Resveratrol Derivative, Trans-3, 5, 4 ′-Trimethoxystilbene Sensitizes...

PLOS Pathogens has retracted a paper "Pseudomonas aeruginosa–induced nociceptor activation increases susceptibility to infection" by a former group at Harvard following a postdoc’s allegations the work contained manipulated data...