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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Exclusive: Cancer researcher sues med school for retaliation after research misconduct finding
- Editors-in-chief of aging journal resign en masse after ‘impasse with the Anatomical Society and Wiley’
- Penn maintains wall of silence over now-retired prof as retractions mount
- How a tweet sparked an investigation that led to a PhD student leaving his program
- A former PhD student loses two papers for forging her co-author’s name
- Guest post: What happened when we tried to get a paper claiming ‘billions of lives are potentially at risk’ from COVID-19 vaccines retracted
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 254. There are more than 35,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers?
Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):
- “The Problem of Irreproducible Bioscience Research.”
- “How to Stop the Unknowing Citation of Retracted Papers.” Our editorial in Anesthesiology.
- “Hino Motors shares plunge more than 6% as data scandal widens.”
- “Li Jiang, the pregnant postdoctoral researcher who said she lost her job after she complained about data falsification in her lab, reached a settlement agreement…”
- “Princeton University Finds Allegations of Misconduct Against Princeton Gerrymandering Project’s Sam Wang to Be “Without Merit,” Closes Investigations.”
- “Plagiarism Is a Structural Problem.”
- “Two comments highlight problematic phrasing about autism and autistic people in a paper published in the Journal of Physics: Conference Series.”
- How “the study of scientific deviance can serve to bring to light symbolic hierarchies that are habitually kept tacit.”
- “NIH fails to ensure clinical trial results are reported, and still funds researchers who don’t file results.”
- “Enhancing Partnerships of Institutions and Journals: A US Perspective for Best Practices.”
- “The U.S. Agriculture Department retracted weekly commodities export data it had released earlier on Thursday after a technical misstep left traders scrambling and caused uncertainty in the futures markets.”
- “Chung Hua University announced Wednesday (Aug. 24) it was rescinding former Hsinchu City Mayor Lin Chih-chien’s (林智堅) master’s degree due to plagiarism.”
- “Controversial masturbation study officially retracted” as police investigate the UK PhD student involved.
- “The regulations can be ambiguous, but the masturbation paper furore is a result of supervisors’ and reviewers’ lack of vigilance, says Michelle Shipworth.”
- Why dietary science must do better about correcting the record.
- “OSTP Issues Guidance to Make Federally Funded Research Freely Available Without Delay.”
- An unwanted message from Elsevier.
- “World’s top journals ‘limiting critiques.’” The study did not include retractions.
- What a retraction notice could have said.
- “Characteristics of blacklisted journals: Evidence from Chinese-language academic journals.”
- “The literature must include publication of null results from well-powered studies.” Otherwise the evidence base is skewed.
- “Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and recent developments on the communication of clinical trials, publishing practices, and research integrity.”
- “Designing and implementing a research integrity promotion plan: Recommendations for research funders.”
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