Seeing Is Believing? Scientific Misconduct and the Detection of Problematic Images. tiny.cc/pa21101

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Number of included articles per publication year (from <1990 to 2024). Green, dashed bar segments represent non-problematic articles. Orange bar segments represent problematic articles.

Erroneous articles can undermine scientific progress & mislead research. @deadneanderthals.bsky.social &co show that 40% of articles on #BrainInjury in animal studies have #ImageDuplication & #ImageManipulation problems, but correction by #journals remains limited @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4p59QzN

Number of included articles per publication year (from <1990 to 2024). Green, dashed bar segments represent non-problematic articles. Orange bar segments represent problematic articles.

Erroneous articles can undermine scientific progress & mislead research. @deadneanderthals.bsky.social &co show that 40% of articles on #BrainInjury in animal studies have #ImageDuplication & #ImageManipulation problems, but correction by #journals remains limited @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4p59QzN

Number of included articles per publication year (from <1990 to 2024). Green, dashed bar segments represent non-problematic articles. Orange bar segments represent problematic articles.

Erroneous articles can undermine scientific progress & mislead future research. Rene Aquarius &co show that 40% of articles on early #BrainInjury in animal studies have #ImageDuplication & #ImageManipulation problems, but correction by #journals remains limited @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4p59QzN

Some potential image duplications found in this paper (http://www.ncbi.nlm

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Jazf1 promotes prostate cancer progression by activating JNK/Slug | Oncotarget https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.23146 Yonghun Sung, Song Park, Si Jun Park, Jain Jeong, Minjee Choi, Jinhee Lee, Wookbong Kwon, Soyoung Jang, Mee-Hyun Lee, Dong Joon Kim, Kangdong Liu, Sung-Hyun...

Some potential image duplications found in this paper (http://dx.doi.org/10

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The dual PI3K/mTOR inhibitor dactolisib elicits anti-tumor activity in vitro and in vivo | Oncotarget https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.23091 Fei Shi, Jinying Zhang, Hongyu Liu, Liangliang Wu, Hongyu Jiang, Qiyan Wu, Tianyi Liu, Meiqing Lou, Hao Wu

Some potential image duplications found in this paper (www.oncotarget.com/l...)

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HBXIP activates the PPARδ/NF-κB feedback loop resulting in cell proliferation | Oncotarget https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.23057 Qian Liu, Wenbin Lu, Chunxia Yang, Yue Wang, Wenjing Li, Ying Chu, Jianzhong Deng, Yongzhong Hou, Jianhua Jin

Some splicing and a potential image duplication found in this paper (doi.org/10.18632/onc...)

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The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides #COSIG brings together 27 freely available resources that explain how to spot #imageduplication, #citationmanipulation #plagiarism tortured phrases and other hallmarks of paper mills — businesses that produce #fakepapers to order.

#ImageDuplication: I flagged this one & contacted the journal in August: Ma et al. 2024, published in @plos.bsky.social 'PLOS GENETICS' (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011216). Authors agreed that it needs to be corrected, but silence ever since. Figure 4H, overlap marked with red rectangles: