More science journals are taking action to tackle the growing problem of falsified and manipulated images in papers submitted to them for publication.
At a meeting on plagiarism in London last week, Virginia Barbour, chief editor of PLoS Medicine, a peer-reviewed journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), which is headquartered in San Francisco, California, said that the problem of image manipulation has “crept up” on journal editors since the advent of software such as Photoshop.
“Everything is submitted electronically, which makes manipulating images much easier to do,” she told Nature.
Source: Nature News
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