Ethical Behavior After an Unethical Publication: Glimpse of Hopes

Finding stem cell researcher guilty of data fabrication at Kyoto University was surprising news in the first month of 2018.1 The news was referring to the fabricated figures which had an inevitable impact on the final conclusion.1 The affiliated university called for retraction of this paper. The main intention of writing this report is not to address the retraction of such scientific papers. Indeed, an ethical behavior following the released news is the main purpose of the current paper. Unfortunately, many papers areannually retracted, while the rapid growth in the number of these papers is worrying (See Figures 1 and 2).