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. ... Meet this super-spotter of duplicated images in science papers Download PDF.

A person doing Alzheimer's disease research (stock image). Tek Image/Science Photo Library/Getty Images 2022-07-25T13:33:48Z ...

Some of those have plagiarism or other problems, such as animal ethics or lack of ethical approval, most are images. If we assume roughly one in 25 papers has an image problem, and I found around ...

Microscope images that have been altered or duplicated can appear in research papers. Credit: Universal Images Group via Getty. The world’s largest science publishers are teaming up to discuss ...

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has requested the retraction of six studies and corrections in another 31 papers after a scathing critique drew attention to alleged errors a blogger and biologist ...

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 ...

University Communications invites all members of the UChicago community to submit images from their scientific research for the fourth annual Science as Art contest. (See the winning entries from 2022 ...

Fearing paper on evolution might get them deported, scientists withdrew it. President Donald Trump’s orders haven’t targeted research involving evolution, but the authors’ unease about ...