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  • Scientific fraud: a sign of the times? - The Guardian

    If you read about scientific fraud in the recent news, it would seem that there is much to worry about. It's on the rise, apparently! There has been a 10-fold increase in the number of retracted papers since the 1970's, and a number of these are due to fraud or suspected fraud. An investigation o... READ MORE>>

  • Misconduct, Not Error, Found Behind Most Journal Retractions - THE CHRONICLE

    Paul BaskenResearch misconduct, rather than error, is the leading cause of retractions in scientific journals, with the problem especially pronounced in more prestigious publications, a comprehensive analysis has concluded. The analysis, described on Monday in PNAS, the Proceedings of the National... READ MORE>>

  • Plagiarism in Turkey - Copy, Shake, and Paste

    Some Turkish academics have been very busy the past few months, it seems. Perhaps inspired by the VroniPlag Wiki documentation in Germany, the authors have put together a massive documentation of plagiarism in Turkish theses that A. Murat Eren, a computer science Ph.D. and post-doc researcher i... READ MORE>>

  • Mathgen paper accepted!

    Nate Eldredge I’m pleased to announce that Mathgen has had its first randomly-generated paper accepted by a reputable journal! On August 3, 2012, a certain Professor Marcie Rathke of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople submitted a very interesting article to Advances in Pure M... READ MORE>>

  • False positives: fraud and misconduct are threatening scientific research - The Guardian

    Alok Jha Dirk Smeesters had spent several years of his career as a social psychologist at Erasmus University in Rotterdam studying how consumers behaved in different situations. Did colour have an effect on what they bought? How did death-related stories in the media affect how people picked produc... READ MORE>>

  • How Plagiarism Happens - The Atlantic

     Ta-Nehisi CoatesWhen Fareed Zakaria was caught plagiarizing Jill Lepore, he offered the same defense that almost every person caught plagiarizing offers:The mistake, he said, occurred when he confused the notes he had taken about Ms. Lepore's article -- he said he often w... READ MORE>>

  • At Islamic varsity, you must be a plagiarist to catch one - The Express Tribune

    Peer Muhammad A professor at IIUI, who was found to have plagiarised, has been made the head of a committee that examines plagiarism cases.Dr Muhammad Sher, a professor of computer science at the International Islamic University Islamabad, was recently promoted to be the dean of Faculty of Basic... READ MORE>>

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