Naoki Mori

Naoki Mori (森 直樹, Mori Naoki^?) is a Japanese virologist who worked at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. He received numerous awards for his research on human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1), a retrovirus which causes adult T-cell leukemia.^[1][2]

In 2010, RetractionWatch reported that 5 of Mori's papers had been retracted by the journal Infection and Immunity. The papers, which were published between 2000 and 2009, described studies on H. pylori.^[2][3] Mori was banned from publishing articles in journals operated by the American Society for Microbiology after it was determined that he had manipulated data and images in a number of articles.^[2] As of October 2011^[update], thirty papers coauthored by Mori have been retracted,^[4] including 5 from Infection and Immunity, 7 from the International Journal of Cancer, and 2 from Blood. Mori took "full responsibility" for "multiple inaccurate and inappropriately duplicated" images,^[5] and was dismissed from his university post in August 2010.^[2]

References

1. ^ Profile: Professor Naoki Mori, Austral-Asian Journal of Cancer, January 2008
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Normile, Dennis (19 January 2011). "Japanese Virologist Loses Job, Gets Publishing Ban for Image Manipulation". Science. http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/01/japanese-virologist-loses-job.html. Retrieved October 27, 2011. 
3. ^ Marcus, Adam (24 December 2010). "Japanese virologist hit with publishing ban after widespread data manipulation". RetractionWatch. http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2010/12/24/japanese-virologist-hit-with-publishing-ban-after-widespread-data-manipulation/. Retrieved October 27, 2011. 
4. ^ Marcus, Adam (12 October 2011). "That’s a Mori! Seven more retractions brings latest count to 30". RetractionWatch. http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/thats-a-mori-seven-more-retractions-brings-latest-count-to-30/#more-4770. 
5. ^ Jump, Paul (13 January 2011). "'Manipulation' nets virologist a 10-year journal ban". Times Higher Education. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=414802&c=1. Retrieved 27 October 2011. 

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