(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 that they didn’t have to deal with it. Today, it would be difficult to claim to be unaware of the extent of the problem. Twenty years ago it was mostly a one-sided arms race – images were being manipulated, but very few people were doing anything about it.
Retraction Watch has the article here.
