Such cases have involved plagiarism, falsification of data, issues of reproducibility, study design (controls, blinding), sponsoring, ghost-writing, improper peer-review or publication procedures.
Some of the reviewers were concerned that the e-mail, reported in the Nonprofit Quarterly, a trade publication, had been an improper communication from the fund.
"New Line has been and is vigorously defending itself against these spurious claims in a binding arbitration proceeding in Los Angeles, and therefore the Texas filing is both procedurally and substantively improper," a Warner Bros. spokesperson told the publication.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "A 28-year-old man was arrested on Thursday 28 April in relation to the alleged publication of offensive material online (improper use of electronic communications under the Communications Act 2003).
But last summer his life was turned upside down – and the publication plans shattered – by accusations of improper contact with underage girls which were splashed in the Sun.
The city is also served by other publications such as Boston magazine, The Improper Bostonian, DigBoston, and the Boston edition of Metro.
The book also urges researchers not to publish the same work in more than one journal or to slice it into several papers to increase their publication count, because doing so is an improper use of reviewers and editors' time and dilutes the value of the scientific literature.
The independent literature search uncovers numerous publications describing the connection of oncogenes to improper, but possibly compensatory reactivation of cell cycle in terminally differentiated neurons that eventually leads to a cell death [ 64- 66].
Briefly, past meta-analyses of alcohol prices and alcohol-related harms are deeply flawed by incomplete data sets; lack of comparable quantitative measures; improper weighting of average effect-sizes; lack of controls for publication bias; lack of adjustments for non-independent observations; failure to properly employ meta-regression techniques; and other econometric problems.
A total of 120 papers were excluded because of publication type (reviews or reports) or because of improper trial design.
