Did a McLuhan moment lead to retraction in Chemistry — A European Journal?
The authors of a chemistry paper are retracting it after a Columbia University chemistry researcher pointed out a fatal misinterpretation of his own work in it. Here’s the notice in Chemistry — A...
View ArticleUniversity of La Laguna ethics committee finds evidence of misconduct in...
A committee at the University of La Laguna (ULL), in Spain’s Canary Islands, has found evidence of misconduct by two chemists in at least two papers. One of those authors had already been forced to...
View ArticlePlagiarism: It’s just an “approach” to writing papers, right?
We’ve heard a lot of rationalizations for plagiarism on this beat — “I didn’t know I had to cite that text”; “That author said it better than I ever could”; etc. — but here’s a new one for the wall of...
View ArticleDid a McLuhan moment lead to retraction in Chemistry — A European Journal?
The authors of a chemistry paper are retracting it after a Columbia University chemistry researcher pointed out a fatal misinterpretation of his own work in it. Here’s the notice in Chemistry — A...
View ArticleUniversity of La Laguna ethics committee finds evidence of misconduct in...
A committee at the University of La Laguna (ULL), in Spain’s Canary Islands, has found evidence of misconduct by two chemists in at least two papers. One of those authors had already been forced to...
View ArticlePlagiarism: It’s just an “approach” to writing papers, right?
We’ve heard a lot of rationalizations for plagiarism on this beat — “I didn’t know I had to cite that text”; “That author said it better than I ever could”; etc. — but here’s a new one for the wall of...
View ArticleThird structure slip-up for chemist in Korea yields retraction
Authors of a 2010 Chemistry – A European Journal article have retracted it “due to the wrong assignment of structure” of catalysts. The retraction is the third, by our count, for corresponding author...
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