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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Faked heart papers retracted following Ohio State investigation
- “Deceit, delusion, and a classic medical fraud”: An excerpt from a new book about a cancer treatment hoax
- ‘Coding’ errors prompt retraction of paper on long COVID in kids
- Exclusive: Biochemistry journal retracts 25 papers for ‘systematic manipulation’ of peer review
- Sleuths spur cleanup at journal with nearly 140 retractions and counting
- Journal retracts article for plagiarized images after trying to gag researcher who complained
- Exclusive: Publisher retracts more than 450 papers from journal it acquired last year
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 50,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?
Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):
Continue reading Weekend reads: Why scientist rankings should be ignored; misconduct claims in court; mining company demands retraction