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Thousands of papers misidentify microscopes, in possible sign of misconduct
via Richardson et al One in four papers on research involving scanning electron microscopy (SEM) misidentifies the specific instrument that was used, raising suspicions of misconduct, according to …
The levels of misreporting the study found are “genuinely concerning,” said Angus Wilkinson, a materials scientist at the University of Oxford, in the U.K., and a part-time scientific sleuth, who was not involved with the new analysis. This practice changed recently when the FAIR principles for scientific data were established, and Richardson said journals now play an important role in ensuring full documentation of image metadata. Richardson said he believes many more of the papers would have ended up on the online forum if someone had scoured through them or run them through AI tools like ImageTwin that can identify integrity issues in figures of scientific manuscripts.
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