By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“The preference of Thippa Reddy Gadekallu et al. (Abdul Rehman Javed, Celestine O. Iwendi, Sharnil Nitin Pandya and Gaurav Jay Dhiman) for coercive citation and copy-pasting their review comments” – Maria de los Ángeles Oviedo García
Schneider Shorts 29.11.2024 – an Alzheimer’s biotech in free fall, an Israeli Scientist explains the unexplainable, a German fraudster indicted, with a butterfly bully, good fellows and bad fellows, inconsistencies in PLOS One, and finally, with some hot chocolate to clean your brain.
Schneider Shorts 13.09.2024 – obituary for an editor, new Swiss rules for authorship, Top Italian Scientist illicitly loses her first paper, an innocent Spanish rector faces retractions, dishonest dishonesty researcher loses lawsuit, with a scandalized German papermiller, concerns and reservations, and finally, with Nazis welcomed by society journal.
a biotech fraudster indicted, a Swedish rector can’t stop papermilling, Oncotarget’s chief editor maliciously targeted, PLOS afraid of Italians but not of French, polluted journal cleaned up, a Texan paper falls, and finally, Chinese robots with minibrains ready to attack!
Schneider Shorts 5.04.2024 – angry old Nobelist hounded again, one German professor whitewashed, another told to find new friends, Iranian student in Finland admits buying authorships, Polish vice-rector brings papermilling home, more retractions for Italian ex-rector, and finally, with an obituary to anti-aging researcher.
“At no time has the University of Montreal or any other institution, regardless of their mission, had anything to reproach me for.” -Dr Emile Levy
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