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|Title=Image Search Triggers Italian Police Probe | |Title=Image Search Triggers Italian Police Probe | ||
| − | |Is About=This is a factual | + | |Is About=The case describes how an image manipulation scandal evolved in Italy. Enrico Bucci's company was offering publication of meta-analysis services. Bucci had detected the images of gel-electrophoresis analysis contained anomalies while conducting a global search to exclude contaminated literature from his database. A list of such papers were authored by Alfredo Fusco. Out of around 300 papers on which Fusco was first or last author, the team found 53 containing gels with potential irregularities, including one from as far back as 1985. After discovering that there was no academic organization in Italy that dealt with such findings, in February 2012 Bucci contacted the Milan police. |
| + | |Important Because=This is a factual story that highlights how new image meta-analysis methods could help to find contaminated scientific literature. | ||
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|Has Location=Italy | |Has Location=Italy | ||
|Has Virtue And Value=Reliability; Honesty; Accountability | |Has Virtue And Value=Reliability; Honesty; Accountability | ||
|Has Good Practice And Misconduct=Fabrication; Falsification | |Has Good Practice And Misconduct=Fabrication; Falsification | ||
| − | |Related To Research Area=Clinical medicine | + | |Related To Research Area=Clinical medicine; LS 02 - Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology |
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Image Search Triggers Italian Police Probe
What is this about?
The case describes how an image manipulation scandal evolved in Italy. Enrico Bucci's company was offering publication of meta-analysis services. Bucci had detected the images of gel-electrophoresis analysis contained anomalies while conducting a global search to exclude contaminated literature from his database. A list of such papers were authored by Alfredo Fusco. Out of around 300 papers on which Fusco was first or last author, the team found 53 containing gels with potential irregularities, including one from as far back as 1985. After discovering that there was no academic organization in Italy that dealt with such findings, in February 2012 Bucci contacted the Milan police.
Why is this important?
This is a factual story that highlights how new image meta-analysis methods could help to find contaminated scientific literature.
