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Robert Weinberg, a prominent cancer scientist whose papers often notch hundreds or thousands of citations, has lost a fourth paper, this time a 2009 publication in Cell.
Olivier Voinnet, a researcher at ETH in Zurich is retracting a 2004 paper in The Plant Cell, according to the journal's publisher.
BioMed Central is retracting 43 papers possibly involving third-party companies selling the service.
Psychology has been home to some of the most infamous cases of fraud in recent years, and while it's just a few bad apples who are spoiling the bunch, the field itself has seen an overall increase in retractions.
Leonid Schneider argues for a new way to ensure accountability for publicly funded research. It has become clear that scientific dishonesty is rarely sanctioned.
Another stem cell paper has been retracted from Nature, this one a highly cited 2008 study. This is the 7th retraction in Nature this year.
An endocrinologist who resigned from the University of Tokyo in March 2012 amid an investigation that concluded 43 of his papers should be retracted, has retracted five more papers. The newest is in this week's Nature.
