Dossier
Academic misconduct
Coverage of Academic misconduct in the Nexus archive.
- Chinese PhD dropout turned whistle-blower exposes data fabrication by renowned scholars
A Chinese PhD dropout turned whistleblower is exposing data fabrication by renowned scholars, gaining over two million followers online. Geng Hongwei, a former bioscience PhD candidate at Beihang University, dropped out in 2025 and gained public attention for questioning a paper from a research team in April.
- Should academic misconduct be catalogued? Proposed US database sparks debate
A proposed US database aims to catalog research fraud and workplace harassment at universities, sparking debate on academic misconduct transparency. The initiative, reported by Nature, would require institutions to register such incidents, raising concerns about accountability and data usage.