(physorg.com): Leading medical journal The Lancet on Friday urged China to tighten measures against scientific fraud after dozens of papers written by two teams of Chinese chemists were found to be faked. The call came after a specialist journal called Acta Crystallographica Section E uncovered extensive fraud in Chinese-authored papers that were published in 2007. The studies purported to announce the invention of at least 70 structures in crystallography, or the study of the arrangement of atoms in solids. Crystallography is a key tool in materials science.
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