(21 Oct 202) Muhammadiyah chairman Haedar Nashir has urged President Prabowo Subianto to address problems of plagiarism and the sale of academic degrees at the nation’s universities. He said plagiarism and academic fraud in higher education reflected a troubling trend of unscrupulous opportunism in the pursuit of advancement. Recent plagiarism scandals, such as those involving…
(21 Oct 2024) In Massachusetts, a family has filed a lawsuit against the Hingham Public School district, alleging that the school unfairly punished their son for using AI on an AP US History assignment. If the lawsuit moves forward, it will be one of the first legal challenges for schools enforcing AI policies. It has…
(10 Oct 2024) Plagiarism used to be an arduous task. Finding and copying content to plagiarize was hard work in and of itself. It was primarily a tool for those unsure about the quality of their work rather than a time/work saver. But as technology made plagiarism easier, it became a powerful shortcut. This caused…
(30 Sep 2024) Web of Science, Clarivate’s influential database of abstracts and citations, has paused indexation of new content from the open-access journals Heliyon and Cureus, apparently due to concerns about the quality of their articles. Retraction Watch has gathered comments over social media on this news here.
(21 August 2024) At the CHORUS forum on July 24th, a diverse group of speakers- ranging from society and commercial publishers to academic institutions and standard organizations, assembled to discuss the vital steps their organizations are utilizing to uphold integrity of the scientific record. The forum delved into the vulnerabilities of our trust-based publishing ecosystem…
(20 Aug 2024) The ways in which researchers can artificially inflate their reference counts are growing. Research-integrity watchers are concerned about the growing ways in which scientists can fake or manipulate the citation counts of their studies. In recent months, increasingly bold practices have surfaced. One approach was revealed through a sting operation in…
(12 Aug 2024) This year marks the 20th anniversary of awareness regarding image manipulation in biomedical literature, highlighting significant changes and ongoing challenges in the field by Mike Rossner. Twenty years ago, people were either unaware of the problem of image manipulation in the biomedical literature, or they thought the problem was so minor…
Government bans researchers from participating in government-funded projects after accusing them of plagiarising content for research proposals (29 Jul 2024) In July, China’s Ministry of Science and Technology published the names of four researchers from institutions across the country who were found to have used plagiarised content in proposals for government-funded research projects. An additional researcher was also named,…
(12 Jun 2024) Increased instances of fraudulent research are affecting the academic publishing community. Following successful pilots, Springer Nature is rolling out two new bespoke AI tools to support the identification of papers that contain AI-generated fake content and / or problematic images – two indicators of research integrity issues. Developed with Slimmer AI Science…
Anonymous interviewees say they engaged in unethical behaviour to protect their jobs — although others say study presents an overly negative view. (11 Jun 2024) “I had no choice but to commit [research] misconduct,” admits a researcher at an elite Chinese university. The shocking revelation is documented in a collection of several dozen anonymous, in-depth…