Fraud on the rise, especially in the United States and in high impact journals
An article in the Washington Post details an alleged case of Fraud which led to an as-yet-uncorrected Nature paper and a suicide:
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Obama administration enacts (qualified) open access
Read more → More from Meta-science →The Obama administration has announced that all research funded by federal agencies (with R&D budgets greater than $100 million) should be made open access within one year of publication:
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Retractions stigmatize scientific fields, study finds
Read more → More from Meta-science →The study, published this week as a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, used the PubMed Related Citations Algorithm (PMRA) to fish out papers that are topically similar to retracted articles but written by different authors. After a retraction, the rate at which these related papers were cited dropped by 5.7% relative to a selection of control papers that were not related to a retraction.