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UAE university breaks ties with beleaguered nanoscientist

- Nov 20
Exposing a most unscrupulous journal

- Oct 19
Malaysia won’t pay for researchers to publish in certain journals

- Oct 11
Crystallography Databases Hunt for Fraudulent Structures

- Oct 11
How thousands of invisible citations sneak into papers and make for fake metrics


- Sep 20
Crossref acquires Retraction Watch Database

- Sep 15
Science publishers settle lawsuits with ResearchGate

- Sep 13
Former Cornell scientists made up data in 12 research studies

- Sep 1
Chemist made-up data in 4 NIH grant applications

- Sep 1
One academic paper’s journey through the mill

- Sep 1
Women scientists are less likely than men to submit papers to high-impact journals

- Aug 29
Flawed chemistry papers can take more than a year to be retracted

- Jul 18
Small gap found in error reporting at JACS

- Jul 4
Preprints become papers less often when the authors are from lower-income countries

- Jun 15
Nick Wise, Scientific Sleuth and Fluid Dynamics Researcher

- Jun 12
Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza retracts another study

- Jun 5
The OPCW’s never-ending fight to eliminate chemical weapons

- May 25
Survey Finds Cheating Is Common in Graduate School

- May 17
Dedicated committee needed to tackle research reproducibility problems in the UK

- May 9
Prominent nanoscientist retracts paper after PhD students flagged error

- May 9
Researchers who agree to manipulate citations are more likely to get their papers published

- May 9
Chemist in India loses seven papers, blames outsourcing of images

- Apr 21
New tool detects papers originating from paper mills

- Apr 21
Earthquake destroyed data, claims Japanese prof found to have faked results

- Apr 7
Highly-cited chemist is suspended for claiming to be affiliated with Russian and Saudi universities

- Apr 7
Five years after saying it won’t retract Macchiarini paper, journal does so

- Mar 26
Exclusive: Australia space scientist made up data, probe finds

- Mar 15
‘Spell-checker for statistics’ reduces errors in the psychology literature

- Mar 8
‘Elite university’ strategies might boost profile and rankings — but at what cost?

- Mar 7
French National Center for Scientific Research faulted over chemistry lab misconduct probe

- Mar 6
A Conversation with Renee Wegrzyn, inaugural director of ARPA-H

- Feb 27
Chemistry bots under threat from changes to Twitter’s API rules

- Feb 24
US Office of Research Integrity received 269 allegations of research misconduct last fiscal year

- Feb 24
‘Golden tickets’ on the cards for NSF grant reviewers

- Feb 20
US Office of Research Integrity appoints new director

- Feb 10
Elsevier journal under fire for rejecting paper that didn’t cite enough of its old papers

- Feb 10
US funders must do more to ensure research reliability


- Feb 6
A Conversation with Greta Heydenrych, IUPAC's new executive director

- Jan 20
Confused by open-access policies? These tools can help

- Jan 6
Unearned authorship pervades science

- Dec 20, 2022
Why children have to wait years for new drugs

- Dec 20, 2022
AI system not yet ready to help peer reviewers assess research quality

- Dec 13, 2022
The chemist who uses paper devices to spot fake and substandard drugs

- Dec 8, 2022
Journals to trial tool that automatically flags reproducibility and transparency issues in papers

- Oct 18, 2022
A road map aims to improve the lives of junior scientists in Europe

- Oct 14, 2022
Should AI have a role in assessing research quality?

- Sep 20, 2022
The case for lotteries as a tiebreaker of quality in research funding

- Sep 16, 2022
French inquiry censures lab that promoted hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid

- Sep 13, 2022
Citation data are now open, but that’s far from enough

- Sep 13, 2022
Five-year campaign breaks science’s citation paywall