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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Journal pulls papers by embattled scientist at national research center in France
- One small error for a physicist, one giant blunder for planetary science
- Exclusive: Committee recommended pulling several papers by former Cornell med school dean
- Norway demotes Hindawi journal after claims one published a stolen paper
- “Bust Size and Hitchhiking” author earns five expressions of concern
- Exclusive: Australia space scientist made up data, probe finds
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are more than 39,000 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):
- A researcher in Spain is “suspended from employment and salary for 13 years.” He figured in a 2012 Retraction Watch post.
- “The Fraud-Fighting Doc Who’s Busting Corrupt Studies.”
- “[T]he fraction of articles…increase by 33% when an editor from the same country serves in the journal.” “Editor home bias?”
- “As evidenced by recent criticisms and retractions of high-profile studies dealing with a wide variety of social issues, there is a scarcity of resources and guidance on how one can conduct research in a socially responsible manner.”
- A Cochrane collaboration shuts its doors.
- What do journalists know and think about open access research?
- “Why a PhD student should perform at least one blind test for a thesis.”
- “What makes for a happy scholarly journal? Budget is just one factor that leads to a well-functioning journal.”
- “Publishing Science in a War Zone.” On the Ukrainian Journal of Physics.
- “On salmon and for-profit journal publishing.”
- “China’s fake science industry: how ‘paper mills’ threaten progress.”
- An MDPI mega-journal was among 82 that were delisted by Web of Science. What does that mean?
- “Of Special Issues and Journal Purges.” More on Hindawi and MDPI.
- “Citation metrics and strategic mutations of scientific research: narratives and evidence.”
- “How covid-19 bolstered an already perverse publishing system.”
- “How we might stop the flood of data-driven misinformation.”
- “Are important institutions of science…available and trustworthy?”
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