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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Reddit post prompts retraction of article that called Trump ‘the main driver of vaccine misinformation on Twitter’
- Ob-gyn who called criticism ‘racist’ and ‘hate speech’ earns retraction, several expressions of concern
- Influential paper linking recessions and left-wing voting patterns retracted
- Urologist blames Big Pharma as concerns mount over his research
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 286. There are more than 38,000 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 new finding of Mr. Park and his colleagues suggests that investments in science are caught in a spiral of diminishing returns and that quantity in some respects is outpacing quality.”
- “Self-publishing is common among academic-journal editors,” according to a new study.
- “Data Tampering Has Shaken Public Trust in Space Development.”
- “Are universities doing enough to address academic misconduct in research?”
- “Multimillion-dollar trade in paper authorships alarms publishers.”
- A deep dive into the use of paper mills in Vietnam.
- “Creating research ethics and integrity country report cards: Case study from Europe.”
- “Scientific Fraud Is Slippery to Catch—but Easier to Combat.”
- During the COVID-19 pandemic, “Editors of social science journals experienced a larger increase in editorial speed than editors of science journals.”
- “How did the scientific publication system respond to the Covid-19 pandemic?”
- “Is it time for a common peer review format for biomedical journals?”
- “AI and Scholarly Publishing: A View from Three Experts.”
- “Young physicists say ethics rules are being ignored.”
- “Utrecht University withdraws doctoral degree awarded in 2008.”
- “Scientists, please don’t let your chatbots grow up to be co-authors.”
- “ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove.”
- Top Mexico judge “Yasmín Esquivel’s advisor titled another 8 students with almost identical works between 1986 and 2008.”
- A blue-ribbon “Panel of scientists has joined research review of Stanford’s president” Marc Tessier-Lavigne.
- “A comprehensive overview of studies that assessed article retractions within the biomedical sciences.”
- A journal “will publish the editor decision letters, reviewer reports and author responses.”
- “Zafar Iqbal expresses sorrow over plagiarism in textbooks.”
- “Preprint review should form part of PhD programmes and postdoc training.”
- “Citing retracted literature: a word of caution.”
- “I Wrote a Viral Screed Against Peer Review. I Got Some Emails.”
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A couple of papers recently published and/or reviewed have questionable assertions (In Search of Ocean Heat).