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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- ‘All the red flags’: Scientific Reports retracts paper sleuths called out in open letter
- Retraction Watch is hiring! Two journalism jobs available
- eLife won’t get an impact factor, says Clarivate
- Engineering publisher pulled 57 papers in a day for peer review ‘irregularities’
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400.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: RFK Jr’s 2011 retraction; ‘the great AI witch hunt’; scientific misconduct in Switzerland