image manipulation

Olivier Voinnet and Patrice Dunoyer face consequences for misconduct that led to the retractions of numerous high-profile papers.

The move follows two major corrections to a 2011 Nature paper, in which researchers demonstrated that a natural compound selectively kills cancer cells.

An investigation finds regenerative medicine researcher Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson manipulated data in seven papers.

The authors of a preprint recommend that journals implement better image screening procedures before publishing articles.

Robert Ryan was forced to resign from the University of Dundee in 2016 following an investigation of misconduct.

An investigation finds 20 papers by Santosh Katiyar, who studied alternative treatments for cancer, include image manipulation.

The University of Tokyo confirmed last August that Yoshinori Watanabe tampered with research-related images, and dismissed him in late April.

Eight papers by Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson, a tissue engineer at the University of Gothenburg, have been flagged for image manipulation.

Alfredo Fusco, a once prominent cancer researcher, has been under investigation for alleged research misconduct since 2012.

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Nature Plants explains how it handled a manuscript coauthored by Patrice Dunoyer, a biologist with multiple retractions to his name.

Most of the authors have had papers pulled in the past.

Molecular and Cellular Biology has found numerous errors after launching a retrospective sweep of the figures it’s published in recent years. 

See coauthors' connections to eight researchers with problematic papers.

A Wayne State University probe into allegations of research misconduct leveled against pathologist Fazlul Sarkar has found the scientist guilty of multiple instances of image manipulation, among other infractions.

A university investigation has so far found no wrongdoing by the principal investigator.

All of the papers had been published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Scanning the literature, scientists find that nearly 2 percent of papers contain duplicated and manipulated figures, among other image-prep no-nos.

Biochemical Pharmacology pulls papers coauthored by a scientist whose work has been under investigation at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Olivier Voinnet, who has corrected and retracted several papers, cannot receive Swiss government grants for three years.