In April, developmental neuropsychologist Dorothy Bishop noticed strange phrases in a 2021 study of autistic children who interacted with...

China’s ministry of science and technology (MOST) has sanctioned hundreds of researchers after an investigation concluded that they had...

There’s ample evidence that retracted papers — 2,500 per year and growing — continue to attract citations that do not mention the fact...

A pilot study at universities and private and public funding agencies in Europe testing a new toolbox of topics aimed at helping...

An estimated 8% of scientists who participated in an anonymous survey of research practices at Dutch universities confessed to falsifying...

An expanding kit of digital tools and apps helps researchers automate certain processes and make others less burdensome. Nature Index has...

The widely used academic database Scopus hosts papers from more than 300 potentially ‘predatory’ journals that have questionable...

An automated tool is targeting an issue that has plagued science for decades: retracted studies cited in newly published papers without...

What should science do about conflicts of interest? When they are identified, they become an obstacle to objectivity — a key tenet and a...

The manipulation of statistics to make results more visible—known as p-hacking—should be classed as a violation of scientific integrity,...

Getting the measure of researchers and their work has long been a contentious subject, but the issue is receiving more attention in light...

Most animals used in biomedical experiments are not accounted for in published papers, a first-of-its-kind study suggests. The analysis...

Keeping tabs on research misconduct and scientific fraud is the job of the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) in the US Department of...

Seventeen of the senior-most officials at Russian universities, known as rectors, have published plagiarized papers in international...

A new study found that gift authorship is the most common type of research fraud in the United States. Yet it remains a common practice...

The close-knit computer engineering community has been rocked to its foundations by a scandal that has so far sparked three...

With hundreds of questionable journals appearing and disappearing on a regular basis, researchers need to be vigilant in their approach...

More than 3,700 researchers based at Australian institutions — roughly 7% of the country’s academic community — as of mid-2019 appeared...

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

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