‘Student Geng’ ignites research-integrity scandal in China after calling out senior academics<b> </b>

Geng Hongwei’s videos have sparked fierce debate on Chinese social media. Credit: Tom Houghton/ Nature Four senior Chinese academics have been disciplined after a blogger and former PhD student flagged data anomalies in their published papers and went viral in the process. A blogger known as Student Geng, whose real name is Geng Hongwei, questioned the authenticity of the data in five papers and named five acclaimed researchers at four Chinese universities who co-authored the publications. …