Jonathan Pruitt

Jonathan Pruitt is a Canadian professor studying the personalities of spiders and a Canada Research Chair at McMaster University.[1]

Pruitt worked at UC Santa Barbara before joining the faculty at McMaster in 2018.[2] His research was previously funded by the National Science Foundation.[2]

As of February 7, 2020, seven papers authored by Pruitt have been retracted.[3] McMaster University announced that it was reviewing 17 of his publications.[3] Pruitt responded to the allegations by stating that the irregularities in his data are mistakes.[4] Twenty-three journals are reviewing publications from Pruitt.[2]

Pruitt has been compared to Diederik Stapel and Jan Hendrik Schön, who were also considered rising stars in their fields before the discovery of their fraudulent publications.[5]

Retracted papers
Paper title Year Originally Published Journal Link to paper retraction notice or statement
Linking levels of personality: personalities of the ‘average’ and ‘most extreme’ group members predict colony-level personality 2013 Animal Behaviour https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.05.030
The Achilles’ heel hypothesis: misinformed keystone individuals impair collective learning and reduce group success 2016 Proceedings B https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0255
Individual differences in personality and behavioural plasticity facilitate division of labour in social spider colonies 2014 Animal Behaviour https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.09.015
Individual and Group Performance Suffers from Social Niche Disruption 2016 The American Naturalist https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/708066
Evidence of social niche construction: persistent and repeated social interactions generate stronger personalities in a social spider 2014 Proceedings B https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0077
Persistent social interactions beget more pronounced personalities in a desert-dwelling social spider 2014 Biology Letters https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0062

References
  1. Marcus, Author Adam (29 January 2020). "Authors questioning papers at nearly two dozen journals in wake of spider paper retraction". Retraction Watch. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  2. Pennisi, Elizabeth (31 January 2020). "Spider biologist denies suspicions of widespread data fraud in his animal personality research". Science. Archived from the original on 3 February 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  3. Viglione, Giuliana (7 February 2020). "'Avalanche' of spider-paper retractions shakes behavioural-ecology community". Nature. 578 (7794): 199–200. Bibcode:2020Natur.578..199V. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00287-y. PMID 32047306.
  4. "Top Spider Biologist's Research Under Fire". The Scientist Magazine®. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  5. "Social Spiders and Science Fraud". Discover Magazine. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
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