The NY Times has an article on the alleged research fraud by Dipak K. Das of the University of Connecticut who reported on the beneficial effects of drinking wine. The fraud is extensive and affects 11 scientific journals. Here is the NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/science/fraud-charges-for-dipak-k-das-a-university-of-connecticut-researcher.html
More detail, including quotes from UConn's press release on the matter is available on "Retraction Watch" website; see: http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/uconn-resveratrol-researcher-dipak-das-fingered-in-sweeping-misconduct-case/ One thing that should be noted is the final paragraph of the NY Times article which I quote here: |Dr. Das was a prolific publisher of research. His name |appears on 588 articles listed in Google Scholar, though |some may be by other researchers with the same name and |initials. Most of the articles concern the effect of drugs |on the heart, including 117 articles on resveratrol. There are a number of problems with using Google Scholar, especially for (a) determining the number of articles a researcher has published and (b) citation analysis. The Thomson Reuters service "Web of Science" (WoS), originally developed by the folks who created science/social science/humanities citation indexes, allows one to identify how many articles one has published (at least as represented in its comprehensive database) and the number of citations each article has. For Das, WoS lists him as having 124 articles, a mean citation per article of 9.44, and an h number of 22. Excluding self-citation, there are 998 citations of his research. So, Google Scholar inflates the number of articles that a specific researcher has publishes (when I checked for my pubs, GS provided multiple hits for a single article which explain the article inflation). WoS will provide a conservative estimate of the number of publications that a researcher has because it does not include all possible journals in its database (e.g., I have a pub in an obscure journal which was not in the database but, when it was cited by another researcher -- thanks David ;-) -- I pointed this out and it is now included in WoS sometimes). WoS gives a better estimate of the impact of Das's work but there probably is still some "error" in it. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=15265 or send a blank email to leave-15265-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
