博士3篇SIS论文伪造数据 学位可能不保

　　

生物通报道，一名路易斯安那州大学健康科学中心的前研究生被发现在已发表的3篇文章中数据造假，目前事件已经调查清楚，美国研究诚信办公室（ORI）已对此事件进行处理。

 

Ryan Wolfort是高胆固醇对人体免疫功能影响方面的研究生，他承认在部分论文中伪造统计数据和分析表格。

 

其中有3篇造假的研究性文章已经发布在学术期刊上，其中两篇发表在《American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology》上，另外一篇发表在《Arterioslerosis，Thrombosis，and Vascular Biology》上。

 

目前两杂志社均已经撤回已发表的文章，据SIS的数据统计，有1篇文章没被收入数据库，另外2篇暂时没有被引用记录。

 

ORI对Ryan Wolfort的处罚是，取消接受联邦基金赞助课题的资格2年，并且2年内不得在任何美国公共卫生服务系统供职。

 

Ryan Wolfort所在的学校和导师拒绝对该事件发表评论。学校对是否撤销造假者的博士学位问题拒绝发表评论。

（生物通 小茜）

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Although Wolfort claimed that some of these falsifications were unintentional, he admitted to deliberately erasing the files and discarding the notebooks containing the raw data for these measures -- an offense which the ORI also considers an act of research misconduct. This action "did play into ORI's findings," John Dahlberg, the director of ORI's Division of Investigative Oversight, told The Scientist in an email, adding that Wolfort received such a severe sentence because of "the overall scope of the admitted misconduct."

 

The university refused to comment on how the fraud would affect the status of Wolfort's PhD earned in 2008, but he will retain his MD degree, earned from the LSU Health Science Center School of Medicine in 2003, Dahlberg said.

 

Due to ongoing "legal issues" related to the case, university employees -- including Wolfort's PhD advisor D. Neil Granger, who was a coauthor on all three of the published papers in question -- were unable to comment. The university also refused to comment on Wolfort's current whereabouts.

 

"The faculty and administration of LSU Health Sciences Center at Shreveport subscribe to the highest standards of research integrity and procedures are in place designed to assure that integrity," the university said in a statement. "The report in the Federal Register is evidence that these procedures are effective."