Just how rampant is scientific misconduct? In episode 51, Elisabeth Bik talks with us about her research suggesting that as many as 35,000 papers in biomedicine journals may be candidates for retraction due to inappropriate image duplication. Her open-access article, “Analysis and Correction of Inappropriate Image Duplication: the Molecular and Cellular Biology Experience” was published on September 28, 2018 with Ferric Fang, Amy Kullas, Roger Davis, and Arturo Casadevall in Molecular and Cellular Biology. 

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Websites and other resources

Elise's website Microbiome Digest and blog Science Integrity Digest
Elise in the news
Example #1, #2 and #3 of  "Where's Waldo" on Elise's Twitter
Elise's 2016 article "The Prevalence of Inappropriate Image Duplication in Biomedical Research Publications"
Interview with Elise on Everything Hertz
Profile of Elise on The Scientist
Plubons article on peer review for beginners
Fiji image software

Media and Press

Washington Post | New York Times | For Better Science | Retraction Watch
 
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