PLOS ONE retracts paper after researcher admits to fabricating data
On June 19, 2017, the U.S. Office of Research Integrity published its first misconduct finding of the year. The ORI reported that Brandi M. Baughman — a former research training awardee at the National...
View ArticleWhy did it take a journal two years to retract a paper after a misconduct...
A 2014 paper containing data manipulated by a former graduate student has finally been retracted, two years after the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) published its findings. In August 2015, the...
View ArticleAfter investigation that started at least 5 years ago, retired ob-gyn prof...
A now-retired professor tweaked the findings in seven figures of a 2007 paper, according to a new finding of misconduct released yesterday by the U.S. Office of Research Integrity. The subject of the...
View ArticleRecent finding of misconduct by federal U.S. agency sparks debate
In 2011, the University of Florida assembled a misconduct report about one of its ob-gyn researchers, identifying falsified data in a 2010 paper. But when an investigator at the U.S. Office of Research...
View ArticleORI finds misconduct in case of biologist paid $100K by university to leave
A biologist who studied the impact of diabetes on the eye inappropriately altered data in five images from three papers, according to a new finding of misconduct issued by the U.S. Office of Research...
View ArticleDivision director leaving U.S. research watchdog after nearly 15 years
The director of the Division of Investigative Oversight at the U.S. Office of Research Integrity is leaving the agency. Susan Garfinkel told Retraction Watch that her last day is November 10. She is...
View ArticleCaught Our Notice: Another retraction for researcher paid $100k to leave uni
When Retraction Watch began in 2010, our co-founders Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus quickly realized they couldn’t keep up with the hundreds of retractions that appeared each year. And the problem has...
View ArticleDirector of U.S. HHS Office of Research Integrity temporarily removed from post
After a tumultuous two years, Kathy Partin is temporarily stepping away from her position as the director of the U.S. Office of Research Integrity. According to an internal personnel announcement...
View ArticleUS court denies virus researcher’s latest appeal challenging 7-year funding ban
Scott Brodie has almost run out of options. A former professor at the University of Washington, Brodie is currently involved in his third lawsuit challenging a finding of scientific misconduct and a...
View ArticleFormer NYU researcher falsified data in 3 papers, 7 grants: ORI
A former researcher at New York University falsified and/or fabricated data in multiple papers and grant applications, according to the U.S. Office of Research Integrity. Bhagavathi Narayanan has...
View ArticleIn what appears to be a first, researcher sanctioned twice by ORI
Here’s something we haven’t seen before: The U.S. Office of Research Integrity has issued a second notice for a former researcher at the National Institutes of Health, after determining she withheld...
View ArticleInfamous case of fraud by protein crystallographer ends in 10-year funding ban
In 2009, a university announced a prominent researcher in the field of protein crystallography had likely fabricated nearly a dozen protein structures. Nine years later, the U.S. Office of Research...
View ArticleChild psychiatrist’s research was suspended “indefinitely” following probe
The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) permanently suspended all research activities for a child psychiatrist years ago following an inquiry into her work, Retraction Watch has learned. In 2015, a...
View ArticleMount Sinai multiple sclerosis researcher admits to misconduct
A researcher who has received millions in funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and who runs a lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York has confessed to falsifying...
View ArticleU.S. government research watchdog pulls newsletter without explanation
The U.S. Office of Research Integrity has removed an issue of its quarterly newsletter, without including a public notice explaining why. The main website for the newsletter — published since 1993 — is...
View ArticleTwo years after student loses PhD, ORI concludes he committed misconduct
The U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) announced today that a former graduate student committed research misconduct — nearly two years after his institution stripped him of his degree. The ORI...
View ArticleAfter years of court battles, former Wayne State researcher barred from...
In a case that has involved eight years of misconduct allegations, two U.S. Federal agencies, a state university, and multiple lawsuits, a former Wayne State researcher has earned a five-year ban on...
View ArticleAre you liable for misconduct by scientific collaborators? What a recent...
Retraction Watch readers may have followed our coverage of the case of Christian Kreipke, a former Wayne State researcher who was recently barred from U.S. Federal funding for five years. That...
View ArticleResearcher found to have committed misconduct using federal grants is...
A researcher who was found guilty of committing misconduct while using three federal grants has published new findings that cite those grants. In 2012, the U.S. Office of Research Integrity determined...
View ArticleUConn prof “recklessly” used false data in NIH grant applications, says...
A liver physiologist at the University of Connecticut with millions of dollars in Federal U.S. funding included false data in half a dozen grant applications, according to the U.S. Office of Research...
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