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Tag: publishing

May 2023
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Nerve regeneration paper retracted over faked data

by  /  24 May 2023

The paper marks the second retraction for one of the co-authors.

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Neuroscience journal retracts 13 papers at once

by  /  22 May 2023

The papers were flagged by a method that has now been called into question.

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Flawed protocol for levodopa clinical trial brings retractions

by  /  9 May 2023

The retracted studies mar hope for the drug’s use in depression.

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Black and women researchers are less likely to hold three or more NIH grants simultaneously

by  /  5 May 2023

A growing proportion of researchers has reached such “super principal investigator” status, but the distribution is not even across demographic groups.

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April 2023

Publisher retracts autism paper after spotting ‘tortured phrases’

by  /  27 April 2023

The paper used more than two dozen such terms, which have cropped up in thousands of published papers in recent years.

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Questions arise around two published studies from Harvard group

by  /  20 April 2023

An anonymous tipster has been sifting through the papers of Jia Liu and his team.

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Imaging journal editors resign over ‘extreme’ open-access fees

by  /  19 April 2023

The editors intend to start a new nonprofit journal.

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A questionable study linked epidurals to autism. Then what?

by  /  18 April 2023

Researchers and clinicians were quick to point out the flaws in the study, and a flood of work refuted it.

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March 2023
Illustration of hybrid objects: part light bulb, part lab vial, some in blue and some in red to signify null and replicated results.

Null and Noteworthy: Registered reports; motor measurements; viral DNA

by  /  16 March 2023

In this edition of Null and Noteworthy, Spectrum talks with a Nature editor about the journal’s move to publish more null results.

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New journals seek to fill neurodiversity gap

by  /  8 March 2023

The two journals, although differing in initial support, both realized the need for a publication focused exclusively on the neurodiverse experience.

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