Exclusive: Investigation prompts retraction of 17 studies from now-shuttered clinic
The University of Maryland found the papers included some data without participant consent.
The University of Maryland found the papers included some data without participant consent.
The journal’s decision comes two years after Spectrum covered backlash from researchers over the study.
A renowned researcher’s eye for detail has given her a second career and a new following.
The paper marks the second retraction for one of the co-authors.
The papers were flagged by a method that has now been called into question.
The retracted studies mar hope for the drug’s use in depression.
A growing proportion of researchers has reached such “super principal investigator” status, but the distribution is not even across demographic groups.
The paper used more than two dozen such terms, which have cropped up in thousands of published papers in recent years.
An anonymous tipster has been sifting through the papers of Jia Liu and his team.
The editors intend to start a new nonprofit journal.