By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“While papermills certainly pollute the literature the most in terms of numbers, I believe the spotlight should equally be on questionable research groups at top institutions, whose articles might have an even larger negative impact on society” – Aneurus Incostans
Schneider Shorts 27.06.2025 – the innocent man of Santa Cruz, the guilty man of Arkansas, a woman and her dogs harassed, a Marquis knighted by King of Spain, with one of Australia’s top researchers, money shortage in Marseille, retractions in Heidelberg, and a lawsuit at Duke.
Schneider Shorts 7.03.2025 – Royal Society salutes Nazi oligarch, Belgian university uses poverty excuse, Chinese surgeons cure Alzheimer’s, with an untrustworthy Italian biotech, a revised correction, circular plagiarism, even more retractions, an erased paper, and finally, with mice turned into mammoths!
Celebrating the German cancer research maverick Margot Zöller of Heidelberg.
Schneider Shorts 10.05.2024 – an abusive archaeology couple kicked out in Leiden, an octogenerian Heidelberg oncologist under spotlight, an Indiana superstar wiped out, Rome papermill about to crash, corrections for various great white men, and a long-awaited retraction at MDPI.
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