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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Wiley corrects retraction notices for ‘inaccurate’ description of why articles were pulled
- Cancer specialist faked data in at least ten papers, VA and UCLA find
- ‘Relieved’: BMJ retracts and replaces article on unexpected weight loss as a sign of cancer
- Mega journal Cureus kicks out organizations critics called paper mills
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400.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 300 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: When Dr. Oz appeared in Retraction Watch in 2014; Didier Raoult in the news again; superconductivity researcher out