data fabrication

Making up research findings

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  1. Data fabrication, lack of ethical approval, withdrawal of paper and publication in another journal

    11-05 This query refers to a clinical trial comparing two forms of treatment which has since been published in another journal. ...

  2. Suspect author

    10-13 Author A has published approximately 150 original articles since ~1994, with ~100 on one particular topic. Since some of these events were up to 16 years ago, and there are no formal records from then relating to these studies, the ...

  3. Question of paper retraction due to proven fabricated data

    10-16 A published paper has been under legal scrutiny due to fabricated data. The court has concluded that the evidence presented undermined the credibility of the study. We have read the COPE guidelines for retracting an article and ...

  4. Concerns over research by an author in numerous, separate publications

    10-06 The authenticity of the content of numerous publications by Author K has been questioned by ‘concerned researchers’ in an anonymous email sent to the Editor of Journal A in December 2009. ...

  5. Potential case of plagiarism

    07-37 One of the referees of our journal has brought to our attention a potential case of plagiarism. ...

  6. An investigation into results that were “almost too good to be true”

    07-29 A general medical journal received an RCT from a seldom-published, single-author, in an eastern European country. The results were striking, with an effect size that surpassed that of established medications for this condition, so ...

  7. Author trap/fabrication detection

    07-21 This is how I dealt with an author who submitted a fabricated manuscript to my journal. ...

  8. Suspected systematic data fabrication

    06-21 The editor received correspondence from a third party suggesting that a paper published in 2005 in the journal by four co-authors contained suspect data. The suspicion was based on the observation that in three separate figures all ...

  9. Possible fabricated data: a conspiracy of silence?

    06-18 I became involved in this issue after reports from doctors in a developing country that three papers in a systematic review published by my company may have been fabricated. ...

  10. Allegation of fraudulent publication

    05-15 Journal A published a paper in 2002.  In 2004 the Editor of Journal A was contacted by a reader, who expressed his doubts as to the integrity of one of the authors associated with the 2002 paper.  The reader suggested that the ...

  11. Ethical approval and fabrication of results

    04-37 A group of authors, based in private practice, submitted three manuscripts to Journal A and one to Journal B. All the manuscripts described the application and effectiveness of a spinal manipulation technique. ...

  12. Plagiarism and possible fraudulent publication

    03-22 An article written by eminent doctors on a subject of great public interest, with implications for public health policy, was published in Journal A. They subsequently wrote to Journal A, indicating that an article had been ...

  13. Going public on potential fraud

    03-20 A research article published some time ago detailed an invasive test. The authors obtained informed consent from the patients, but did not seek ethics committee approval. Subsequently, the journal published correspondence from X, ...

  14. Plagiarism and possible fraud

    03-16 The authors of a paper published in another journal wrote to the editor of Journal A, complaining of apparent blatant plagiarism of their work by N et al. , whose paper had been published in the journal earlier in the year. ...