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Former NIH scientist falsified images in hepatitis study: ORI
A former postdoc at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) committed misconduct in a study of hepatitis by falsely claiming that data from a single trial subject were actually from more than a dozen...
View ArticleCrise de foie: Liver journals retract duplicate biomarker pubs
Two liver journals have retracted articles from a group of Irani researchers who published similar — but not quite identical — versions of the same paper some months apart. A retraction notice in the...
View ArticlePlagiarism leads to retraction of liver cancer paper
The journal Digestion has a retraction notice that’s, well, an amusing morsel. At issue was a 2011 paper on a biomarker for liver cancer by a group of Turkish authors who plagiarized from the work of...
View ArticleGroup’s duplication retractions span the globe, from New Zealand to Romania...
The retraction count continues to grow for a group of Iranian scientists who appear to have published similar work four times. The group was forced to retract a Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver...
View ArticleError scuppers paper on treatment for liver fibrosis
Pharmaceutical Biology has retracted a 2012 paper by a group of liver researchers from China after the discovery of an error that evidently invalidated the results in the paper. The article,...
View ArticleLiver study a twin, gets retracted
The liver is the only internal organ that can regenerate. So perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that Egyptian researchers tried to publish the same paper about liver ischemia twice in different...
View ArticleHepatology issues corrections in two papers from Pitt liver group
A group of liver researchers from the University of Pittsburgh has earned a pair of corrections in Hepatology for image problems. The team was led by George K. Michalopoulos, chair of the department...
View Article“Insufficient permission” from funder resects liver disease paper
A study on chronic liver inflammation was pulled from the journal Hepatology because of “insufficient permission by the authors’ funding institution to submit and publish the manuscript.” The paper,...
View ArticleStem cell researchers fix two papers following PubPeer comments
A pair of stem cell researchers have earned two corrections, the result of images that were mislabeled, distorted, or compiled incorrectly, according to the notices. Kang Cheng prepared the gels when...
View ArticleAuthor objects to retraction after he says journal ignored his queries for...
In 2014, a journal contacted researcher Denis Rousseau about one of his papers that had just been published online ahead of print, raising some concerns. According to Rousseau, he sent the journal a...
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