China vows to clamp down on academic fraud amid medical journal scandal
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China’s Ministry of Science and Technology has said that it is investigating the case of 107 papers from China retracted by the journal Tumor Biology in April this year and that it has “zero tolerance” for academic fraud. The papers were retracted after the journal’s publisher, Springer, conducted a manual screening that showed that the authors had submitted papers with fake email addresses for reviewers. “The incident has had a very bad influence, seriously tarnishing the international reputation of China’s scientific …
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Studies from mainland China were excluded because of frequently raised quality concerns (Leucht et al., 2022; Parry, 2017; Tong et al., 2018).
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“We excluded studies from main-land China, given documented quality problems (Leucht et al., 2022; Parry, 2017; Tong et al., 2018).”
BackgroundSchneider‐Thoma, J., Efthimiou, O., Bighelli, I., Doerries, C., Huhn, M., Krause, M., Reichelt, L., Röder, H., Furukawa, T. A., Davis, J. M., et al. (2019) · The Lancet Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/s2215-0366(19)30223-8 · Cited by 41 · see citing works
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Leucht, S., Siafis, S., Schneider‐Thoma, J., Tajika, A., Priller, J., Davis, J. M., & Furukawa, T. A. (2024) · Schizophrenia · doi:10.1038/s41537-024-00442-8 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
- Authors
- Parry, J.
- Corresponding author
- Parry, Jane
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2017-06-19
- Volume
- 357
- Pages
- j2970
- ISSN
- 1756-1833 (ISSN-L)
- 0959-8138
- OpenAlex
- W2654914596
- Cited by
- 10
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1
- Type
- other
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- BMJ (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Academic integrity and plagiarism
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Keywords
- academic fraud, research misconduct, retracted article, tumor biology, Springer, scientific integrity
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