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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Publisher error claims joke paper, April Fools’ tradition – three years later
- A closer look at the ‘chocolate with high cocoa content’ hoax
- The top ten stories at Retraction Watch in 2023
- Elsevier’s Scopus deletes journal links following revelations of hijacked indexed journals
- The year at Retraction Watch, 2023: Whew!
- Publisher donating author fees from retracted articles to charity
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to over 375. There are more than 45,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains well over 200 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? Or The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List?
Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):
- A Japanese national institute finds misconduct by a director.
- A journal “continues to be a safe space for paper mills and very low-quality articles.”
- Authors remove a manuscript on COVID-19 vaccinations and mortality.
- “Another Reason Why Diamond Access Makes Sense: No Economic Barriers To Publishing Rebuttals.”
- “Papers with female lead authors get fewer citations than do those led by male authors in subsequent male-led papers.”
- “Being part of the self-correction of science.”
- An historian responds to a critic who said her book “systemically misrepresents” sources.
- “Is the Patent System Sensitive to Incorrect Information” such as retracted citations?
- “Reading between the lines of retractions.”
- “Affiliation Bias in Peer Review of Abstracts by a Large Language Model.”
- Remembering a friend of Retraction Watch.
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