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…an unofficial winner emerged this year: Yoshitaka Fujii, winner of the rather dubious honor of Most Retracted Papers, with 172 falsified reports. Assuming all of those publications are retracted the Japanese anesthesiologist will wrest the title from German anesthesiologist Joachim Boldt, who has racked up a comparatively paltry 90 retractions. In July, a panel assembled by the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists concluded that Fujii had fabricated results in studies published between 1993 and 2011. Of the 212 studies examined, the committee could only find three that appeared legit. The fabricated reports described such things as controlled trials that never happened, using patients that don’t exist and medications that were never administered.
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