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“Academics and researchers are ill prepared for what to do when they’re victims of publication misconduct“, say authors of an article published by BMJ.com, whose work has been plagiarised multiple times. They describe the struggle with their defense against plagiarism: the publisher of the plagiarised paper first didn’t respond at all, and took …
Jack Grove (2023). ‘This might tank my career’: Pruitt accuser on whistleblowing. Times Higher Education. Accessed on 15th June 2023 – link What would you do if you realised that some of your published co-authored papers have inconsistent data, most likely due to data fabrication or falsification? Would you …
“Leading international scientists who discovered articles written by artificial intelligence that have been published in their name have backed plans for legal action.” Jack Grove. Identity theft victims back legal action against journals. Times Higher Education, 2nd February 2023. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/identity-theft-victims-back-legal-action-against-journals Accessed: 16th February 2023 Recently, concerns have been raised …
When Matthew Schrag (a neurologist at Vanderbilt University, USA) shocked the Alzheimer disease’s scientific community in 2022 with claims of significant misconduct on a leading paper in the field (2006), it opened the eyes to a problem that has long been rooted in the scientific community, and not just in …