Fraud as one aspect of motivation for to retracting scientific papers
Fraud as one aspect of motivation for to retracting scientific papersCarl Zimmer, The Loom-blog author, writes in the New York Times:
Last year the journal Nature reported an alarming increase in the number of retractions of scientific papers — a tenfold rise in the previous decade, to more than 300 a year across the scientific literature.
This article got corrected post published saying that fraud was not no.1- motivation for retracting an article but misconduct:
The earlier version also misstated the reason cited in the study for three-quarters of the retractions for which researchers could determine the cause. It was misconduct, not fraud. (Fraud or suspected fraud accounted for 41.3 percent of retractions; other forms of misconduct made up the rest.)
The New York Times.