This statement seems to be based on the retraction of a high-profile paper, published in Nature in 2006, showing that amyloid ...

A community of sleuths hunting for errors in scientific research have sent shockwaves through some of the most prestigious research institutions in the world — and the science community at large.

Science needs to get serious about research fraud. Journals should be much faster at retracting papers containing Photoshopped images or manipulated data — and should not publish them in the ...

Elisabeth Bik quit her job to spot errors in research papers — and has become the public face of image sleuthing.

A seminal 2006 paper contains manipulated data, an investigation from Science alleges. More than 2,200 papers refer to this paper in their work.

Seven studies from researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have been retracted, following allegations that images used in them had been manipulated or duplicated.

Research papers in the life sciences have become increasingly dense, potentially making them harder for reviewers to understand.

Internationally peer-reviewed journals published more than 100 research papers from China-based authors that appear to have reused identical sets of images, raising questions about the ...

An Unsettling Hint at How Much Fraud Could Exist in Science Two experts on dishonesty are separately accused of tampering with data for the same research paper. Has this ever happened before?

An Explosive New Report Could Upend More than a Decade of Alzheimer’s Research. How Did This Happen? A conversation with reporter Charles Piller, whose recent Science investigation rocked the ...

Scientific integrity sleuth Elisabeth Bik, a member of the 2024 #STATUSList, is taking on the widespread problem of research misconduct.