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Replication Leads to High Profile Retraction
[Excerpts are taken from the article “Retracted: Risk Management in Financial Institutions” “ by Adriano Rampini, S. Viswanathan, and Guillaume Vuillemey, published in the Journal of Finance] “The authors hereby retract the above article, published in print in the April…
Read MoreBad Science = Good Citations
[Excerpts are taken from two articles, “The Unfortunately Long Life of Some Retracted Biomedical Research Publications”, by James M. Hagberg, published in the Journal of Applied Physiology; and “Inflated citations and metrics of journals discontinued from Scopus for publication concerns:…
Read MoreBROWN: How to Conduct a Replication Study – What Not To Do
[This post is based on a presentation by Annette Brown at the Workshop on Reproducibility and Integrity in Scientific Research, held at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, on October 26, 2018. It is cross-published on FHI 360’s R&E Search for Evidence blog]…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Mother Jones (September 25, 2018)
[From the article, “This Cornell Food Researcher Has Had 13 Papers Retracted. How Were They Published in the First Place?” by Kiera Butler, published in Mother Jones] “In 2015, I wrote a profile of Brian Wansink, a Cornell University behavioral science researcher who…
Read MoreCOX, CRAIG, & TOURISH: Publishers Cannot Be Coy
[This blog is a repost from the article “Publishers cannot afford to be coy about ethical breaches” published April 19th, 2018 in the Times Higher Education by Adam Cox, Russell Craig, and Dennis Tourish.] There are rising concerns about the…
Read MoreKARABAG & BERGGREN: Misconduct and Marginality in Management, Business, and Economics Journals
The problems of publication misconduct – manipulation, fabrication and plagiarism – and other dodgy practices such as salami-style publications are attracting increasing attention. In the newly published paper “Misconduct, Marginality, and Editorial Practices in Management, Business, and Economics” (full text…
Read MoreTales from the (Psychology) Crypt
This story about academic negligence, if not outright fraud, has many similarities with previous posts about “data mistakes,” though there is enough unique in the story to make it interesting in its own right. To paraphrase Tolstoy, “each unhappy article…
Read MoreBOB REED: On Andrew Gelman, Retractions, and the Supply and Demand for Data Transparency
In a recent interview on Retraction Watch, Andrew Gelman reveals that what keeps him up at night isn’t scientific fraud, it’s “the sheer number of unreliable studies — uncorrected, unretracted — that have littered the literature.” He then goes on…
Read MoreOn p-Hacking, Retractions, and the Difficult Enterprise of Science
This article in FiveThirtyEighty.com is a great read for lots of reasons. The leitmotiv is that while science has its share of fraudsters and academic scammers, the underlying problem is that the scientific enterprise is inherently very, very difficult. To…
Read MoreIt’s So Easy to Do: Small Coding Error Leads to Retraction
This article from the Washington Post is noteworthy only because it highlights how a small coding error can cause a major change in a study’s results. The original study claimed that men were more likely than women to divorce a…
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