German anesthesiologist Joachim Boldt has an unfortunate claim to fame. According to Retraction Watch, a public database of research retractions, he is the most retracted scientist of all time. To ...

Research universities are voicing concerns over some proposed changes to the process for reviewing scientific misconduct allegations, citing worries that new government requirements would hobble their ...

In December 2001, a small but lively meeting in Budapest, Hungary, launched a whole new international movement. The resulting Budapest Open Access Initiative opened with the words: "An old tradition ...

So, with the public's trust in its institutions already crumbling, the scientific community must get serious about the way it deals with alleged fraud and misconduct. To be convinced of this, we can ...

Researchers who are accused of sexual misconduct start to receive fewer citations after the media covers the allegations. But the same cannot be said about scientists publicly accused of scientific ...

A Harvard University probe into prominent researcher Francesca Gino found that her work contained manipulated data and recommended that she be fired, according to a voluminous court filing that offers ...

Ambika Grover ‘27, a Crimson Editorial Editor, is a joint concentrator in Molecular & Cellular Biology and Statistics in Leverett House and a student researcher in the Patel Lab. Recent cases of ...

Scholars accused of sexual misconduct saw a significant decline in citations within three years of public allegations, reveals a new study from the University of California San Diego Rady School of ...

Estimates of the average yearly citations per publication (including all publications) by scholar group, misconduct type, and time. In a new analysis, scholars publicly accused of sexual misconduct ...

Scientists are generally pleased to learn that their papers are being discussed and cited. Discussion on one platform, however, is a cause of consternation: PubPeer. No scientist wants to learn that ...