There cannot be any tolerance of academic cheating

THE MINISTRY of Science and Technology announced on Thursday the results of an investigation into a scandal in which a foreign medical journal retracted 107 Chinese papers due to peer review fraud. Beijing News commented on Friday:

In April the medical journal Tumor Biology, published by Springer Nature, retracted some 107 papers authored by Chinese scholars, after it was discovered the email addresses of the peer reviewers were fabricated. After the articles were retracted, a ministerial-level joint working group was formed to look into the matter.

According to its investigation, of the 521 authors involved, 486 were guilty of misconduct at various levels, 24 are still being investigated, and 11 were deemed innocent.