“Consistently unsurprised”: Nigerian vaccine study with no Nigerian authors...
Last month, PLOS ONE published a paper reporting on a trial to improve the uptake of the measles vaccine in Nigeria. The researchers were affiliated with IDinsight, a San Francisco-based “global...
View ArticleDid a journal retract your paper on homeopathy? Meet the journal that will...
A homeopathy journal that Elsevier dropped in the wake of concerns about excessive self-citation appears to have carved out a new niche for itself: self-pity. In 2016, Homeopathy lost its slot on...
View Article“I do wish that journal editors would not take six years to perform an...
In July 2014, Elisabeth Bik notified PLOS ONE that she’d found three papers in the journal by a group of researchers who had clearly manipulated figures in the articles. More than six years later, the...
View ArticlePaper suggesting vitamin D might protect against COVID-19 earns an expression...
PLOS ONE has issued an expression of concern for a paper it published last month suggesting that vitamin D might protect against severe COVID-19. Central to the concerns is that the authors seem to...
View ArticleCOVID-19 pneumonia paper earns expression of concern — for being similar to a...
Researchers in China have received an expression of concern for a recent paper on COVID-19 pneumonia after editors were alerted to suspicious similarities between the tables in the article and those in...
View ArticleU Maryland virus researcher up to 13 retractions
A veterinary researcher at the University of Maryland has lost seven papers for problematic images and other issues, bringing his retraction total to 13. Siba Samal, who studies viruses and vaccines,...
View ArticlePLOS ONE retracts paper purporting to be about lung ultrasound for COVID-19...
PLOS ONE has retracted a paper on pneumonia in people with Covid-19 after the authors could not allay concerns about the integrity of their data. The article, “Lung ultrasound score in establishing...
View Article“There can be no justification for such studies”: Paper on artificial eyes...
A journal has issued an expression of concern for a 2020 paper by researchers in Korea who have used 3-D printing to create artificial eyes for dogs. The study triggered a slew of critical comments...
View ArticleThe one that got away: Researchers retract fish genome paper after species...
A group of researchers in Canada has retracted their 2018 paper on the gene sequence of the Arctic charr — a particularly hearty member of the Salmonidae family that includes salmon and trout — after...
View ArticleAn author asked for multiple corrections to a paper. PLOS ONE decided to...
After an author requested a slew of changes to a published paper, journal editors reviewed the study and spotted “additional concerns” that led to its retraction. The study, titled “Pressure regulated...
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