Kaveh Bazargan

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The vast majority of possible image misconduct that I see in scholarly publishing is in Cancer research. This is so depressing. Here are two papers with duplicated images.
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This is a problem in publishing, with a particular relevance to Humanities and Social Sciences. We are working on solving the problem and ensuring authors get credit for their work.

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@mumumouse2.bsky.social has been finding a lot of cases of identical XRD plots in the same chart and across different papers. Here are 4 papers using the same plot.
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Satisfying but depressing at the same time. What hope is there for the communication of scientific research?
Found by @sholtodavid.bsky.social
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Surprising similarity between curves
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This is a problem. The solution is to embed digital "provenance" in all content. This is possible and we and others are working on it. I have discussed this with some of your colleagues.

Identical XRD spectra apart from a tiny difference.
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I just noticed that in a second response they have admitted a duplication!

Author: "After carefully check of the results, we are sure that they were different WB bands from different experiments"

What do you think folks?
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The tick marks on the author names on the PubPeer page shows all received notifications and can respond, but not holding my breath!

Thanks for making so much work for me @mumumouse2.bsky.social 😡
5 papers with identical plots!
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Almost a duplication but not quite.
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ChatGPT is taking ages to write my response to you. Will come back shortly. ;-)

Another incontrovertible find by @mumumouse2.bsky.social
Feel a bit sorry for the publisher who is punished for publishing a hi res image! Why are images in papers such low resolution??
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Interested to see author's response to this duplication found by @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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Thanks. I am sure they are more. Feel free to add it to pubpeer.

Depressing that a huge proportion of image misconduct is in Cancer research.

Paper published 20 years back. Clear signs of Photoshop. First reports on PubPeer was 2024. @grumpygasbag.bsky.social pointed to more problems. I have just done another animation based on that.
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Author: "A portion of this micrograph has been modified in order to obtain a nicer image."
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Thank you for seeing these in the first place! And thank you for your bravery against the countless personal attacks.

Author: "We respectfully disagree with the interpretation that the highlighted regions represent duplicated areas."
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Found by @elisabethbik.bsky.social

Found by @elisabethbik.bsky.social

Author:
"The regions highlighted by ImageTwin likely reflect similarities introduced by grid or imaging artifacts during data acquisition rather than data manipulation."
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Found by the inimitable @mumumouse2.bsky.social BTW

Mysterious similarities in XRD graphs
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And multicoloured too. 😀

It a good excuse to say hi! 😀

Hi Clare. Is this open to anyone? I have tried to register and seem to be going round in circles – criticism of me, not AUP!!

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I was kindly asked by @alpsp.bsky.social to create an educational video on XML in scholarly publishing. I was more than happy to do so and decided to use some analogies to make it more accessible. Any comments on how to improve it would be welcome.
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Images suspiciously edited. Waiting 5 years for explanation from authors.
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So depressing. Im image misconduct I think the biggest area of cheats is cancer research.