Prominent biologist Rao Yi is refusing to back down after Cell Press said it had found no evidence that top journal editor Steve Mao sought bribes from Chinese scientists.
In a statement published on Thursday evening, Cell Press – one of the world’s leading scientific publishers, owned by Elsevier – said its investigation had “largely concluded” and “found no evidence to support the aforementioned allegations”.
Nevertheless, Rao, a tenured chair professor at Peking University who stepped down as president of Capital Medical University last year, is maintaining his criticism of the journal Cancer Cell’s editor-in-chief.