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Nature 439, 520-521 (2 February 2006) | doi:10.1038/439520a; Published online 1 February 2006
Special Report Should journals police scientific fraud?
Emma Marris
Abstract
Editors don't expect peer review to catch deliberate fakers. But recent scandals mean that journals are looking at other ways to detect fabricated papers. Emma Marris investigates.
The scientific community is sunk in one of its periodic bouts of angst over research fraud. After the Korean researcher Woo Suk Hwang's cloning work turned out to be spectacularly false, recent weeks have brought revelations that range from spurious Norwegians in a cancer study to doubts over RNA work in Japan (see page 514).
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