Early-career researchers are less likely to report research misconduct when they come across such activity than senior faculty, a survey of more than 1100 re...

Online sleuths have discovered what they suspect is a paper mill that has produced more than 400 scientific papers with potentially fabricated images. Some j...

A third of early-career researchers have had their work harmed by the questionable research practices of colleagues based at their institution, an online sur...

The Chinese Academy of Engineering has launched an investigation into prominent Chinese immunologist Xuetao Cao, the president of Nankai University in Tianji...

The United Kingdom should establish a committee to monitor efforts by the nation’s universities to properly conduct misconduct investigations, a government i...

A new publishing system that uses the underlying technology behind the popular cryptocurrency bitcoin promises to solve some of academia’s thorniest problems...

The Physics Society of Iran (PSI) has voiced concern over a recent case of faked peer review by an Iranian researcher. The full article was published at Phys...

A university in Singapore has revoked a second researcher's PhD following a major misconduct scandal. The full story was published at Retraction Watch. IMAGE...

The University of Gothenburg in Sweden is investigating several papers co-authored by biologist Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson after they were challenged on Pu...

A paper about combating cyberterrorism is coming under fire after allegations of plagiarism sparked on social media. The paper, which was published in a jour...

Researchers in Finland are criticizing an investigation by VTT Technical Research Centre into one of its scientists. Kai Simons, who conducted an earlier inv...

A new linguistic comparison of fraudulent scientific papers with sound manuscripts reveals that dishonest papers have their own literary style i.e. they are ...