All articles tagged with #retraction watch
A 2023 paper by Stuart Harris questioning the link between carbon dioxide and climate change was retracted by the journal Atmosphere on September 16 due to significant errors. The article, which gained widespread attention on social media, contained factual inaccuracies regarding data sources and historical timelines. Experts described the work as chaotic and unsupported by peer review standards.
Kyoto University’s CiRA defends Nobel Prize winner Shinya Yamanaka amid Gotham City Research’s allegations of image duplication across about 10 papers. Some cases had prior investigations with corrections or no evidence of duplication, and CiRA says there are no known ongoing institutional probes, while several items involve coauthors or materials sharing rather than misconduct.
Nature is reviewing concerns about a February paper from Shanghai Jiao Tong University describing preclinical gene-editing work for SNIBCPS after a 6-year-old girl died from an immune reaction to the therapy; the death and the family’s funding were not disclosed in the manuscript, prompting an Editors’ Note and an investigation by the university. The case has drawn international media attention and ongoing scrutiny of the study’s data and disclosures.
A chemistry researcher had 35 papers retracted within 24 months for a mix of issues including major errors in analyses, compromised peer review, image-related problems, and citation manipulation. Most retractions appeared in Elsevier- and Royal Society of Chemistry–published journals, placing the scientist on Retraction Watch’s leaderboard. Coauthors have defended the work as a matter of presentation rather than fraudulent data.