T he 217-year-old publisher of numerous scientific journals, Wiley, is dealing with an existential crisis. It recently shuttered 19 journals and retracted more than 11,300 papers upon discovering ...

As discussed by Drs. Miller and Young, a crisis is underway in scientific research. “Paper mills” publish fake or manipulated articles that resemble genuine scientific research; scientific journals ...

The journal Science retracted a 2006 paper by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute President and CEO Laurie H. Glimcher ’72 on Thursday due to discrepancies in several figures, following data manipulation ...

Self-correction is fundamental to science. One of its most important forms is peer review, when anonymous experts scrutinize ...

Aston University biostatistician Dr. Dan Green has identified the top ten errors he commonly sees in research papers in his work as a statistical reviewer for scientific and medical journals.

Research into nicotine use by young Aussies and a study on an Eastern gray kangaroo pox virus have something in common.

France, for example, is one of the world’s leaders in research integrity, he notes, and the work of sleuths resulted in a lot of retractions in 2024.

In one example, the order has sidelined a paper on the successful U.S. mpox outbreak response in 2022 that was co-authored by CDC scientists, according to its lead researcher.

Credit: Sezeryadigar/Getty Scientific-image sleuth Sholto David blogs about image manipulation in research papers, a pastime that has exposed him to many accounts of scientific fraud.

Once you’ve laid your hands on a paper, you may also check the citation number, usually off to the side or at the bottom. This number represents how many times other papers have cited this one.