My previous entry on this subject, “Research Integrity“, was stimulated by the breaking news in October 2011 of problems surrounding publications from Prof. Melendez when he was at NUS. I have recently discovered that, following an internal investigation at the University of Liverpool, Prof. Melendez resigned from the University some months ago (late autumn or during the winter, I am not entirely sure). I am not au fait with the legal niceties, but I think the University should be proud that it has managed to resolve effectively the issue at Liverpool.
Update 3 November 2013 The links to Abnormal Science and Science Fraud are dead.
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[…] Abnormal Science catalogued published data that should not have been published. It has not been active since February 2012, but is a very interesting insight, including some of the major recent cases of fraud, such as that by Melendez. […]
[…] Prof. Melendez, who was at NUS, then moved to Glasgow and then to the University of Liverpool – hence my interest. After an internal investigation at Liverpool (which I was not party to), he left the University. […]
[…] I used as examples the cases of Melendez and Schoen, which I have previously alluded to (here and here). Significant numbers of papers are found wanting after publication for a variety of reasons. The […]
The link to the Melendez papers at Abnormal Science is dead, due to the site shutting down. The curious can follow the link in the right hand bar to Retraction Watch and then search for “Melendez” and piece the information together for themselves.
[…] much more likely to have a mess to clear up. My own university had a close call on this front with Melendez – happily he didn’t publish while he was […]