Image Manipulation

Dr. Alan Fisher knew his team’s research had immense potential. After months of tireless work, they finally achieved groundbreaking results. However, as he reviewed the images in…

Images serve as visual evidence in biological research that help researchers validate their experimental findings. They also enable others in the field to reproduce the studies,…

The scientific community is facing a new frontier of controversy as artificial intelligence (AI) is being misused to generate manipulated image. In a shocking turn of events, a…

In recent months, the scientific community has been grappling with a growing trend: the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into the production of scientific…

Journals are increasingly turning to cutting-edge AI tools to uncover deceitful images published in manuscripts. These advanced algorithms meticulously comb through papers,…

In the first part of this series, we highlighted the challenges and takes from authors and journals on image manipulation. So who’s really in charge of making sure that journals…

In 2009, researcher Hwang Woo-Suk was convicted of research misconduct that included embezzlement and unethical procurement of human eggs. Among his less widely reported ethical…

Image manipulation in manuscripts has become an emerging type of research misconduct, with nearly 4% of papers exhibiting some type of suspicious image alteration. Between Google…

Advanced technologies have put the control of scientific images in the hands of researchers and authors. For example, the blots and gels that accompany and represent data in an…

It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Images are a powerful addition to a scientific manuscript—they can help clarify what has been said in the text and can…

The saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words” is very applicable to scientific data as this data is more than just numbers and charts but is also pictures and images. Many…