Richard Van Noorden

Oct 22, 2024 | nature.com | Jeff Tollefson |Richard Van Noorden

Science in the United States has never been stronger by most measures. Over the past five years, the nation has won more scientific Nobel prizes than the rest of the world combined — in line with its domination of the prizes since the middle of the twentieth century. In 2020, two US drug companies spearheaded the development of vaccines that helped to contain a pandemic.

Oct 22, 2024 | nature.com | Richard Van Noorden

Which scientific publishers and journals are worst affected by fraudulent or dubious research papers — and which have done least to clean up their portfolio? A technology start-up founded to help publishers spot potentially problematic papers says that it has some answers, and has shared its early findings with Nature.

Aug 28, 2024 | nature.com | Richard Van Noorden |Miryam Naddaf

In January, a review paper1 about ways to detect human illnesses by examining the eye appeared in a conference proceedings published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in New York City. But neither its authors nor its editors noticed that 60% of the papers it cited had already been retracted. The case is one of the most extreme spotted by a giant project to find papers whose results might be in question because they cite retracted or problematic research.

Dec 13, 2023 | nature.com | Richard Van Noorden |Richard Webb

This story is part of Nature’s 10, an annual list compiled by Nature’s editors exploring key developments in science and the individuals who contributed to them. It co-wrote scientific papers — sometimes surreptitiously. It drafted outlines for presentations, grant proposals and classes, churned out computer code, and served as a sounding board for research ideas. It also invented references, made up facts and regurgitated hate speech.

Dec 12, 2023 | nature.com | Richard Van Noorden

NEWS 12 December 2023 The number of articles being retracted rose sharply this year. Integrity experts say that this is only the tip of the iceberg. The number of retractions issued for research articles in 2023 has passed 10,000 — smashing annual records — as publishers struggle to clean up a slew of sham papers and peer-review fraud.