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Jonathan Pruitt is a Canadian professor studying the personalities of spiders and a Canada Research Chair at McMaster University.
Pruitt worked at UC Santa Barbara before joining the faculty at McMaster in 2018. His research was previously funded by the National Science Foundation.
As of February 7, 2020, seven papers authored by Pruitt have been retracted. McMaster University announced that it was reviewing 17 of his publications. Pruitt responded to the allegations by stating that the irregularities in his data are mistakes. Twenty-three journals are reviewing publications from Pruitt.
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.