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Scientific Fraud: How Journals Detect Image Manipulation (Part 2)
In the first part of this series, we highlighted the challenges and takes from authors and journals on image manipulation.
So who’s really in charge of making sure that journals…
Scientific Fraud: How Journals Detect Image Manipulation (Part 1)
In 2009, researcher Hwang Woo-Suk was convicted of research misconduct that included embezzlement and unethical procurement of human eggs. Among his less widely reported ethical…
How to Avoid Image Manipulation in Research Papers
Image manipulation in manuscripts has become an emerging type of research misconduct, with nearly 4% of papers exhibiting some type of suspicious image alteration. Between Google…
Image Manipulation in Research Articles
Advanced technologies have put the control of scientific images in the hands of researchers and authors. For example, the blots and gels that accompany and represent data in an…
Is Your Image the Whole Truth?
It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Images are a powerful addition to a scientific manuscript—they can help clarify what has been said in the text and can…
Avoiding Fraudulent Image Manipulation in Academic Research
The saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words” is very applicable to scientific data as this data is more than just numbers and charts but is also pictures and images. Many…