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Amid an ongoing investigation, a group of psychology researchers at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium have taken a painful decision to retract a paper now that they’ve realized there were serious problems with one aspect of the work. Here’s the notice for “The Emergence of Orthographic Word Representations in the Brain: Evaluating […]
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Jesús Lemus — the veterinary researcher whose work colleagues have had trouble verifying, including being unable to confirm the identity of one of his co-authors — has notched his ninth retraction. It’s a clear and comprehensive notice, from the Journal of Applied Ecology, despite the bizarre nature of the case: The following article from Journal […]
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The Aging Male (the journal, not the demographic) is retracting a 2013 paper by a group of Chinese researchers who’d published the plagiarized same work — more or less — in from a Chinese title. The article, “Testosterone therapy improves psychological distress and health-related quality of life in Chinese men with symptomatic late-onset hypogonadism patients,” […]
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A paper on partially entangled states seems to have fallen victim to a confusing entanglement of authors and studies. Here’s the notice for the paper, “Optimal quantum communication using multiparticle partially entangled states,” by Atul Kumar, Satyabrata Adhikari, Subhashish Banerjee, and Sovik Roy: This article should be considered withdrawn from publication. Although the paper shows […]
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Chinese researchers have had a 2012 paper in Plant Molecular Biology Reporter on genetically modified wheat retracted, in a notice that cites fraud. The article, “Isolation and Functional Characterization of an Antifreeze Protein Gene, TaAFPIII, from Wheat (Triticum aestivum),” came from the same group we wrote about in April 2012 when they retracted a paper […]
