All misconduct articles
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OpinionMisconduct investigators, show your work
Weighting transparency and confidentiality in scientific misconduct investigations
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UK to set up research integrity committee by 2020
A panel appointed by UKRI will oversee university misconduct investigations
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Misconduct not mistakes are the chief reason chemistry papers are retracted
Analysis prompts call for publishers to be more open about the reasons a paper is withdrawn
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Study of misconduct suggests first author should be guarantor for a paper’s accuracy
Research examined 80 misconduct investigations by US Office of Research Integrity
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US university agrees $112.5 million settlement in misconduct lawsuit
Alleged falsification of data has already led to 17 retractions
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Forensic chemist’s sacking raises questions about US drug convictions
Firing of North Carolina police chemist prompts review of criminal drug cases from the past three-and-a-half years
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Survey reveals most researchers in China publish to get promoted
‘Publish or perish’ culture also blamed for recent research misconduct scandals
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Final cost of forensic chemist’s misconduct still being counted
Massachusetts’ highest court has dismissed thousands more criminal drug cases because of the actions of Sonja Farak
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Embattled director of US research integrity office heads to NIH
Head of Office of Research Integrity won’t return after temporary reassignment and is set to become NIH’s integrity officer
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Cleaning up clinical trials
Campaigns to enforce complete and correct reporting of trial data are beginning to take hold
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Efforts to root out sexual harassment in science gain momentum
Two US funders and a scientific society announce plans to terminate funding and expel researchers found guilty of sexual misconduct
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35,000 papers in the biomedical literature might need retracting
Analysis of sample of journals suggests 0.4% of papers may have problematic images
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Bizarre chemical structure sinks paper five years later
In a detective story of a retraction, an antimicrobial compound’s eyebrow-raising structure led to allegations of image manipulation
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Indian institute investigates nanoscientists for indiscriminate image manipulation
Four new retractions bring the total for Rashmi Madhuri and Prashant Sharma up to 14, with at least another 50 papers potentially affected
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Chaos at US government’s research integrity office
The dramatic drop in misconduct findings from the Office of Research Integrity in the last two years has been blamed on turmoil at the agency
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Protein chemist barred from US government funding for a decade
Former University of Alabama researcher found guilty of falsifying x-ray crystallographic data more than 10 years after red flags first raised
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Anonymous survey sheds light on research misconduct
Most academic and industrial scientists polled had either committed or witnessed unethical practices
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