retractions
Concerns arising from requests to retract published articles (i.e. for a journal to publish a notice of retraction), Editors’ decisions to retract articles or the process of retraction
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Retraction or correction?
11-18 A reader contacted us with evidence that a number of western blots in a manuscript published by us in 2007 had been duplicated from other published papers; in one case, the same gel was duplicated in the paper itself. I compared ...
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Retractions of primary literature papers: how should a review journal react?
11-07 In a recent and very prominent case of publication misconduct resulting in the retraction of 12 research papers (to date), many journals have been included in ‘round-mails’ from the whistleblower and other scientists. Our journal ...
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Author misconduct
10-32 You can listen to the podcast of this case from the menu on the right ...
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A claim of stolen data and a demand for retractions
10-22 The publishers received an email from author B about a recently published paper, which passed peer review and had been available online for about a month. In this email, author B claimed that he and another colleague C had ...
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Retract, correct, or both?
10-12 Like many journals, we do not collect actual signatures of each co-author, asking the corresponding author to declare on a form that, among other things, he/she has the authority to submit on behalf of the others ...
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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 ...
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Developing a procedure to deal with retractions
08-09 We have recently been alerted to the fact that an article which has been reviewed as part of our service has been retracted. This is the first time this has happened and we are currently developing a guideline on how to deal with ...