A Science and Technology Blog
A group of 16 scientists has written an open letter to Dr Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet and authors of the Russia’s Sputnik V novel coronavirus vaccine trial paper,…
The Lancet Global Health retracts a letter about the plight of nurses treating COVID-19 patients in Wuhan published on February 26. Can editors of peer-reviewed journals take a moral high-ground…
An independent committee formed by CSIR in early June 2019 to investigate into image duplication and/or manipulation in published papers has submitted its report to CSIR Director-General Dr. Shekhar Mande.…
Finally, UGC is set to introduce a course for PhD students on research and publication ethics. Ironically, the course will not be teaching even the basics of preparing images for…
Indian doctors at the Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh have their ‘Image in Clinical Medicine’ photo published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) retracted. It is not…
Two papers of Prof. Kithiganahalli N. Balaji from IISc have been retracted and three more have been corrected for issues with images, including duplication and undeclared gel splices. Two more…
Dr. Mamta Chawla-Sarkar, a senior scientist at ICMR’s NICED has 16 papers listed on PubPeer for image duplication and/or manipulation. Six of these papers were published when she was a…
A Russian website has listed 344 papers accepted for publication by journals from different countries where authorship is available for a fee. There are 73 papers listed from journals based…
