Up-and-coming stars in Nanjing Medical University
“For example, over the course of just a year, from 2021 to 2022, the Ren et al. team make a series of significant discoveries in Kidney disease.”
Category: Guest post
Please Don’t Steal My Work, by Maria Toft
“…my suspicion is that academia is much more haunted by power abuse and structures of fear than most other systems. […] these conditions put a pressure on otherwise morally functioning human beings and suddenly “research theft” and power abuse become part of the invisible academic culture.” – Maria Toft
My little PubPeer saga – A wake-up call, by Ingrid Herr
“Dear colleagues, scientists, check your lab members’ raw data, publications, and dissertations even more thoroughly than before to protect scientific ethics and data integrity and maintain trust in science!” – Ingrid Herr
Eligible for a full waiver
“I reviewed papers published in special issues of Hindawi journals that had corresponding authors from low- and middle-income countries. It seems, the APC waiver policy may be being abused by papermills” – Parashorea tomentella
Cancer and anesthesia – a question of trust
Morty reviews a review, on an important topic and written by Belgian scholars. Turns out, it is mostly referencing fraudulent and papermilled trash from China.
Superconductive Fraud: The Sequel
“After the huge box-office success of “Nature 2020: Room-temperature superconductivity in CSH” this March our Nature studios released a sequel with the same star-studded cast: “Nature 2023: Near-ambient superconductivity in N-doped LuHx”. – Maarten van Kampen
Hindawi Garbage Sorting System, Based on Citations
Parashorea tomentella continues their investigation of Hindawi’s uneasy collaboration with Chinese papermills. Can it be solved with the promised 511 retractions?
Papermill – your local partner for Special Issues in China
Did you know that special issues are better than regular issues and better than special issues?
Research misconduct: Theory & Pratico
A whistleblower tried to report fraud in Domenico Pratico’s papers via proper channels, and hit a wall everywhere.
Misinformed and Damaged – victim of unethical trial hits back
“I don’t ask TGA staff to risk their lives at work, only that they don’t risk mine and others’ lives by withholding public health information.” – Robert Cockburn
For Better Science 