The question of whether universities should investigate questionable research produced by their students or faculty at other institutions touches a fundamental principle of academic integrity: accountability follows the individual, not just the institution.
A key argument in favor of university [...]
A newly compiled dataset has shed light on the scale and pricing structure of the market for purchased authorship in academic research, highlighting ongoing concerns about research integrity and the evolving tactics of paper mills.
The dataset, known as BuyTheBy, aggregates more than 18,000 ad [...]
A leading professional society in pharmacology has taken coordinated editorial action on a series of publications associated with Italian pharmacologist Salvatore Cuzzocrea, amid ongoing legal scrutiny and concerns about research data integrity. The measures include multiple expressions of concer [...]
A widely cited 2011 study examining how motivation affects intelligence test scores has been retracted after it was discovered that one of the studies [...]
A peer-reviewed energy journal published by Elsevier has withdrawn six articles from its 2022 issues after identifying irregularities related to autho [...]