Research integrity
What was retracted, what investigations found, and how cases ended
22 high-profile research-integrity cases, from journal notices, university investigation reports and regulators. Honest errors and cleared researchers are recorded as clearly as misconduct findings.
- Anil PottiMisconduct foundOncology (genomic predictors of cancer treatment response) · Duke University School of Medicine · 1 paper on record
- Brian WansinkMisconduct foundFood marketing and consumer behaviour · Cornell University (Food and Brand Lab) · 2 papers on record
- Carlo CroceClearedCancer genetics · Ohio State University College of Medicine · 1 paper on record
- Claudine GayErrors without misconductPolitical science · President of Harvard University · 2 papers on record
- Dan ArielyUnder investigationBehavioural economics · Duke University, Fuqua School of Business · 2 papers on record
- Diederik StapelMisconduct foundSocial psychology · Tilburg University (earlier University of Groningen and University of Amsterdam) · 1 paper on record
- Eliezer MasliahMisconduct foundNeuroscience (Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease) · National Institute on Aging, US National Institutes of Health (earlier University of California, San Diego) · 2 papers on record
- Frances ArnoldErrors without misconductChemical engineering and directed evolution of enzymes · California Institute of Technology · 1 paper on record
- Francesca GinoDisputed in courtBehavioural science · Harvard Business School · 3 papers on record
- Han ChunyuErrors without misconductMolecular biology (gene editing) · Hebei University of Science and Technology, China · 1 paper on record
- Haruko ObokataMisconduct foundStem cell biology · RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan · 3 papers on record
- Hwang Woo-sukMisconduct foundStem cell biology and cloning · Seoul National University · 2 papers on record
- Jan Hendrik SchönMisconduct foundCondensed matter physics · Bell Laboratories (Lucent Technologies), United States · 2 papers on record
- Joachim BoldtMisconduct foundAnaesthesiology · Klinikum Ludwigshafen, Germany (earlier Justus Liebig University Giessen) · 2 papers on record
- Jonathan PruittMisconduct foundBehavioural ecology (spider behaviour) · McMaster University, Canada (papers in question date from his earlier posts at other institutions) · 2 papers on record
- Marc Tessier-LavigneClearedNeuroscience · President of Stanford University (papers came from labs he ran at earlier institutions and at Genentech) · 2 papers on record
- Pamela RonaldErrors without misconductPlant pathology and genetics · University of California, Davis · 2 papers on record
- Paolo MacchiariniMisconduct foundThoracic surgery and regenerative medicine · Karolinska Institutet, Sweden · 2 papers on record
- Ranga DiasMisconduct foundCondensed matter physics (superconductivity) · University of Rochester · 3 papers on record
- Shigeaki KatoMisconduct foundMolecular biology (nuclear receptors) · University of Tokyo, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences · 1 paper on record
- Thomas SüdhofErrors without misconductNeuroscience (synapse biology) · Stanford University · 2 papers on record
- Yoshitaka FujiiMisconduct foundAnaesthesiology · Toho University (earlier other Japanese institutions) · 1 paper on record