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just a scientist who cares about scientific integrity. Find things I find on pubpeer, user "Archasia Belfragei"
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International Journal of Hydrogen Energy I quote: "In recent decade, various researcher published papers about nanofluid heat transfer augmentation [19-62]." Ofc. not a citation-vehicle at all. 27 self-citations to the author of this wonderful article. Totally legit. pubpeer.com/publications...

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If you photoshop your XRD pattern peaks I think we can all agree that it's totally ok, right? Wang et al. 2022 (DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2022.119281) & 'Carbohydrate Polymers' think this is legit science of course. pubpeer.com/publications...

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Saudi-Arabian' material science once again showing us how it's done: Hajri et al. 2022 (DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2022.119207) pubpeer.com/publications... XRD is one of the most commonly manipulated data found in material sciences. This figure was clearly crafted from imagination, not underlying data

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Hmmmmmmmmm. A fake study on some random modified chitosan? IMPOSSIBLE! pubpeer.com/publications... Aljohani et al. 2024, Elsevier Journal: Carbohydrate Polymers (DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2023.121620)

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Pro Tip: If you manipulate your XRD data, make sure the trace doesn't contain backtraces or gaps when copy-pasting your hand drawn sections... Jabraili et al. 2021: pubpeer.com/publications... in the Springer "Journal of Polymers and the Environment"

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Pirsa et al. 2024 provide truly magnificent data for their new cellulose-modified red onion peel powder waste nanoparticles (bullshit bingo!) Also: "No data was used for the research described in the article". I appreciate their honesty here tbh. pubpeer.com/publications...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Creative biomedical research coming out of Romania with histology images recycled for multiple papers, representing entirely different experiments: pubpeer.com/publications... I am sure Elsevier/MDPI will be ok to correct since all of this was certainly an accident!

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

RETRACTION: this paper was such a mess that the corresponding author withdrew it altogether instead of trying to come up with an explanation for the extensive overlap across multiple figures. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Another cringe CORRECTION?! for this complete mess. Three figures contained issues but no reason for Elsevier or the journals editors to even consider more serious consequences for obviously sketchy papers like this... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... pubpeer.com/publications...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

CORRECTION: "confirmed that the image of 3d M/G 3/1 condition has been duplicated for the 7d H and 7d M conditions in Fig. 9" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Elsevier strikes once again, allowing a correction of partial overlap across three panels + errors in a second figure. Very questionable

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RETRACTION: The first paper of 7 by S.Z. Bathaie has been retracted by Wiley. Good job! "the partial raw data shared raised additional concerns of inappropriate image processing." Sounds like they provided manipulated raw data to explain the duplication. iubmb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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(1/2) Very normal spectrum in Missaoui et al. 2022 (DOI: 10.1007/s00339-022-06108-5) in 'Applied Physics A' (Springer/Nature): pubpeer.com/publications... #ResearchIntegrity An interesting collaboration between French, Tunisian & Saudi "scientists".

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

2nd RETRACTION. 2 out of 3 of these made-up papers by Alqudah et al. from 2024 are now retracted. www.pnfs.or.kr/journal/view... It took 7 months so this is actually way faster than average (which is insane if you think about it). The group has dozens of similar articles that are not addressed yet.

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(1/x) This weekend, I have flagged 18 research articles by the Romanian researcher Anca Hermenean who is Professor as part of the Faculty of Medicine & Department Head at Vasile Goldis Western University of Arad in Romania. pubpeer.com/search?q=Anc...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Correction: MDPI has decided that it is appropriate to correct this: www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17... (because it is MDPI & nothing ever does more than a correction because manipulation does not exist.). One of MANY articles by these authors with similar problems so this certainly wasn't an accident.

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Call me old-school, but I like it if my XRD data does not contain gaps... Pandele et al. 2017 (DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2017.06.010). Courtesy of Elsevier of course! pubpeer.com/publications... Funded by the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research. Love to see it!

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

This team of French and Tunisian scientists was pretty careful about their data manipulation, but not quite careful enough: pubpeer.com/publications... One of over 50 papers in 'Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology' with XRD-related issues so far...a great society journal indeed!

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Can't wait for Elsevier and the "International Journal of Biological Macromolecules" to swiftly correct this cringe-worthy paper. Not sure if this paper is gonna move "bioprinting" forward given the level of copy-pasting going on in Figure 6C... pubpeer.com/publications...

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Most of the figures in Naseri et al. 2012 (DOI: 10.5402/2012/604241) were published by the same group a year prior. But why publish your data once if you can also publish it twice without someone noticing, right? Gotta get the publication number & h-index up somehow! pubpeer.com/publications...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Totally normal noise signature in this paper's XRD pattern: Gadhave et al. 2021 (DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.11.047). Looks to me like someone's child played around in paint... pubpeer.com/publications... Still good enough for the "International Journal of Biological Macromolecules" & Elsevier

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments