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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Physics publisher retracting nearly 500 likely paper mill papers
- Exclusive: NIH researcher resigned amid retractions, including Nature paper
- Didier Raoult papers earn expressions of concern as criminal investigation gets underway
- Brain tumor researchers retract paper from Science journal
- Chinese hospital sanctioned at least 35 scientists for research misconduct
- Publisher says it will investigate allegations despite editor’s refusal
- Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza retracts four papers
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 258. 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):
- “Scientists Allege Researcher Faked Reproductive Health Data Across Dozens of Papers.” So far, he is up to four retractions.
- “When they set up Retraction Watch, they believed there were around three retractions published by journals a month. It was actually forty-five. Now it’s closer to 300.”
- “If you hurt an animal for no reason, because you’re actually committing fraud, that’s pretty heinous.”
- “My take on the oligomeric amyloid dodecamer fraud allegations is that it is actually an illustration of the scientific process working towards an accurate picture of the world.”
- “From penis length to lies: Almost 80 articles by Norwegian authors have been retracted.”
- A researcher says that his work was plagiarized and translated into Spanish.
- “We need to talk about editors.” On a preprint about journals and paper mills by Dorothy Bishop and Anna Abalkina.
- “Approximately 16% of all authors may have engaged in [reference list manipulation] RLM to some degree.”
- “Exploratory analysis of text duplication in peer-review reveals peer-review fraud and paper mills.”
- “Doug Gottlieb retracts Freddie Freeman report in wake of lawsuit, says he ‘simply got it wrong.'”
- “Stakeholders’ Experiences of Research Integrity Support in Universities: A Qualitative Study in Three European Countries.”
- “The fight against scientific fraud: A thankless but necessary task.”
- “California Biotech Executive Is Guilty in $77 Million Blood-Testing Scheme.” They compared themselves to Theranos.
- “Research integrity in clinical trials: innocent errors and spin versus scientific misconduct.”
- “In science, consequences for wrongdoing seem rare.”
- “How (not) to be held accountable in research: The case of the Dutch integrity code.”
- South Korea’s “First lady continues to be mired in plagiarism allegations.”
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Meanwhile, another tranche of retractions from another Special Issue, due to corrupted peer review:
https://asp-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/articles?query=%22Retraction+note%22&volume=&searchType=&tab=keyword
“The Editor-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article. The article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation by the publisher found a number of articles, including this one, with a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised editorial handling and peer review process, inappropriate or irrelevant references or not being in scope of the journal or guest-edited issue. Based on the investigation’s findings, the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article.”