IIT Delhi start-up’s false claims expose the perils of blind trust
More than two weeks after making false claims on March 8 that Sanfe Period Pain Relief Roll-On, an Ayurveda product claimed to help women with menstrual pain, is FDA-approved and…
Category: Research ethics
Retraction saga: IIT Dhanbad faculty learnt to reuse published images during their doctoral programme
Rashmi Madhuri and Prashant Sharma of IIT Dhanbad have 15 and 19 papers respectively listed on Pubpeer website. These papers have been published while they were doing their doctoral programme…
Two dozen papers by IIT Dhanbad faculty retracted so far, many more still under a cloud
Rashmi Madhuri and Prashant Sharma, Assistant Professors at IIT Dhanbad, have so far collected over 24 retractions. And many more papers with similar problem of image duplication have been listed…
Investigation confirms serious scientific misconduct by IIT Dhanbad faculty
IIT Dhanbad has completed its investigation into possible scientific misconduct by Dr. Rashmi Madhuri and Dr. Prashant Sharma. The scientific misconduct appears serious and may attract major penalty. Fourteen papers…
Image duplication: Group at Bose Institute has two papers retracted, two corrected, and many listed on Pubpeer
A research group at the Department of Chemistry, Bose Institute, Kolkata has two papers retracted and two more corrected for image duplication. And there are many more papers listed on…
‘It is easy for me to spot most image duplications’
Dr. Elisabeth Bik has a remarkable natural ability to identify both image duplication and image manipulation through visual screening. She along with others recently found questionable image duplications in 10%…
About 35,000 papers may need retraction for doctored images
Researchers have been able to spot inappropriately duplicated images in 59 of 960 papers published in one journal between 2009 and 2016. Of the 59, five were retracted. They conclude that…
IIT Dhanbad retraction saga: ‘Investigation will be completed shortly’
IIT Dhanbad has already initiated an investigation into unethical practices by Dr. Rashmi Madhuri and Dr. Prashant Sharma. The investigation will be completed shortly and the board will take a…
