Academic scandals

engineer and politician (1972–2026)

paleoanthropological hoax

Swiss biochemist and physiologist (1877–1950)

British former doctor

1996 hoax accepted by an academic journal

British historian (1914-2003)

conspiracy allegations based on hacked emails

any type of cheating that occurs in relation to a formal academic exercise

discredited English educational psychologist (1883–1971)

papyrus fragment with forged Coptic text

Japanese-American activist, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist

South Korean scientist

limestone box asserted to be that which originally held the bones of James of the New Testament, but contested as a forgery

British chemist (1927–2012)

2018 group of bogus academic papers

claims of a link between the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autistic spectrum disorder

SCIgen is a paper generator that uses context-free grammar to randomly generate nonsense in the form of computer science research papers. Its original data source was a collection of computer science papers downloaded from CiteSeer. All elements of the papers are formed, including graphs, diagrams, and citations. Created by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, its stated aim is "to maximize amusement, rather than coherence." Originally created in 2005 to expose the lack of scrutiny of submissions to conferences, the generator subsequently became used, primarily by Chinese a

Indian biochemist and activist

Bulgarian-American physicist

Japanese stem-cell researcher (born 1983)

Dutch social psychology (born 1966)

massive admission and recruitment scam in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh

Norwegian dentist

deadly fire in a Karamay theater, Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region, western China

French academic dispute

American ecologist

Indian government agency

Dissernet () is a volunteer community network working to clean Russian science of plagiarism. The core activity of the community is conducting examinations of doctoral and habilitation (higher doctorate) theses defended in Russian scientific and educational institutions since the end of the 1990s, and making the results of such examinations known to as many people as possible. The community is composed of professional scientists working in various fields of science both in Russia and abroad, and also journalists, civil activists and volunteers.

2025 Hong Kong student AI controversy

Japanese politician (1926–2023)

university degrees regarded as worthless

American papyrologist and classicist

website that hosts dossiers on pro-Palestinian activists

university in Bucharest, Romania

disciplinary tribunal at Harvard University