Research papers in peer-reviewed academic journals are at the heart of academic integrity. New ideas and discoveries are ...

Listing fake authors and misusing waivers solves those problems, Abalkina explains. And if papers are retracted, that doesn’t ...

But what happens when academic journals which distribute important research from the world's universities begin to be subject to these same kinds of fake influences? That's the question researchers ...

Medical Laboratory Scientist at bench with micropipettes. — Courtesy U.S. National Institutes of Health (Public Domain) Medical Laboratory Scientist at bench with micropipettes. — Courtesy U.S.

A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half. By Carl Zimmer For years, whistle-blowers have warned that ...

The false idea that vaccines cause autism began when a fraudulent 1998 study was published by British doctor Andrew Wakefield — a claim that spread misinformation that continued for decades. “There ...

Beatriz Ychussie’s career in mathematics seemed to be going really well. She worked at Roskilde University in Denmark where, in 2015 and 2016 alone, she published four papers on mathematical formulae ...