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Category: Research ethics

Posted on January 11, 2020January 11, 2020

Investigation into papers with problematic images complete, report submitted: CSIR director-general 

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.…

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Posted on January 10, 2020January 10, 2020

UGC’s half-hearted attempt to teach research ethics

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…

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Posted on January 2, 2020January 2, 2020

NEJM retracts Chandigarh doctors’ image for plagiarism, case concoction

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…

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Posted on December 16, 2019December 21, 2019

IISc professor has two papers retracted, three corrected for image issues

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 Kithiganahalli N. Balaji from IISc have been retracted and three more have been corrected for issues with images, including duplication and undeclared gel splices.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…

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Posted on July 31, 2019August 1, 2019

ICMR-NICED scientist has 16 papers with duplicated, manipulated images

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…

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Posted on July 20, 2019

Authorship in 73 journal papers from India up for sale

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…

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Posted on July 16, 2019July 17, 2019

65 papers from India retracted for image falsification/fabrication, errors

Among papers retracted in chemistry and material sciences in 2017-2018, 17.2% was from India though only 7.3% papers from India were published, thus contributing to 2.4-fold difference between retractions and…

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Posted on July 13, 2019July 16, 2019

Manipulation within a photo should always result in a retraction: Elisabeth Bik

Scrutinising images for tell-tale signs of manipulation is no longer a hobby for Dr. Elisabeth Bik; it has become a passion. The passion has become so overpowering that she has…

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