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Sometimes, it’s easiest and most straightforward if we just let retraction notices sink in before we comment on them. Take this one from Semigroup Forum, signed by Chong-yih Wu of National Pingtung...
View ArticleWeekend reads: China’s scientific publishing black market, how to blow the...
It’s been a busy week here at Retraction Watch, with breaking news about hotly debated papers from Nature and about GMOs, but there have been interesting stories about retractions and scientific...
View ArticleMathematicians have second paper retracted
A group of mathematicians in Iran have had a second paper retracted, and if we may, neither of the notices adds up. Here’s the notice: for the new paper, in the Journal of Inequalities and...
View ArticleRemedial math lesson: When does one reference equal an entire paper?
A higher-ed journal has retracted a recent paper by a New Jersey scholar who failed to adequately cite one of her sources. Trouble is, the researcher did reference the article more than once — raising...
View ArticleNine-year-old plagiarism allegation leads to retraction of math paper
It is often said that science is self-correcting, but it is usually more accurate to add “in the long run” to that statement. Take, for example, this retraction of a 10-year-old paper in Entropy that...
View ArticleHumbert, Humbert: Duplication topples matrix function paper
A pair of mathematicians from Egypt has lost their 2012 article in the Journal of the Egyptian Mathematical Society because they reused some of the material from a previous publication. The article,...
View ArticleBlatant plagiarism sinks paper (and earns a sabbatical!) for mathematician
You know it’s a good one when it makes it onto the Wikipedia page for “scientific misconduct.” On April 21, the International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics retracted two 2008 papers by...
View ArticleStudent denied credit, math article retracted
A math paper in the Journal of Inequalities and Applications has been retracted after it was discovered the authors had included a student’s work without acknowledging her. One of the authors, however,...
View ArticleDuplication of “a major part of text and results” adds up to third retraction...
An article by Alexander Spivak, a mathematician based in Israel, is being retracted from the proceedings of a 2014 numerical analysis meeting because Spivak had already published “a major part of text...
View ArticleTo catch a cheat: Paper improves on stats method that nailed prolific...
The author of a 2012 paper in Anaesthesia which offered the statistical equivalent of coffin nails to the case against record-breaking fraudster Yoshitaka Fujii (currently at the top of our...
View Article“Gap in the proof” deletes math paper
The author of a paper on the properties of a vector space is retracting it from The Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society after a “false application” of a theorem led to a “gap in the proof.”...
View ArticleThirteen-year-old mathematics paper retracted for plagiarism
A 2002 paper that investigates a kind of equation used to describe physical systems has been “has been detected to be a case of plagiarism.” Here’s the abstract of the Journal of Applied Mathematics...
View ArticlePlagiarism count for mathematician updated to four papers
After we reported on a retraction for a 13-year old paper by Mohammed Aassila, a reader alerted us to two retractions and an editorial notice for the mathematician. Each of the notes is several years...
View Article1+1 “identical” math papers = retraction
A paper on an equation useful in finance has been retracted after editors discovered an “identical” version had been published in another journal. The paper, “On the Parametric Interest of the...
View ArticleAuthor’s coordination of peer review flags 13 math papers
Thirteen papers in Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids now have an expression of concern, after it came to light that an author on most of the papers coordinated the peer-review process. David Y. Gao,...
View Article“Significant errors in the data” stop Hurricane Isaac paper
This version of Hurricane Isaac — based on the force of nature that hit Louisiana in 2012 — didn’t get very far. Atmospheric Research has retracted a paper on a simulation of the hurricane just a few...
View ArticleAuthor withdraws entire issue after overseeing his own peer review
The editor and author of most of the papers in a special issue of a math journal told us he is withdrawing the entire issue following revelations that he had coordinated the peer-review process. The...
View ArticleHonest errors take down math paper
An incorrect proof has felled a math paper. There’s not too much to say in a straightforward situation like this one, which we’ve seen before — the result of honest errors, not any malfeasance. Here’s...
View ArticleMath journal retracts entire issue following peer-review problems
The editor of a special issue of a math journal — and author of many of the papers in it — has officially retracted the entire thing, after promising to withdraw it last year following issues with the...
View ArticleAlgorithm paper retracted for “significant overlap” with another
A paper on a hybrid algorithm turned out to be a hybrid itself — some original data, plus some from a paper that the authors had published earlier. According to the retraction note, the overlap was...
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