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Sexual harassment allegations linked to drop in citations

But numbers remain steady for researchers who commit scientific misconduct.
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  1. Dyani Lewis

Researchers who are accused of sexual misconduct start to receive fewer citations after the media covers the allegations. But the same cannot be said about scientists publicly accused of scientific fraud, whose citations remain unchanged, according to an analysis published this week in PLoS ONE1.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-00676-1

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  1. Maimone, G., Appel, G., McKenzie, C. R. M. & Gneezy, A. PLoS ONE 20, e0317736 (2025).

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