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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Wiley reopens plagiarism case about dead researcher’s work
- Sociology journal’s entire editorial board resigns after Springer Nature appointed new leadership
- Exclusive: Mayo, Florida profs among authors of article tied to Indian paper mill
- Exclusive: Elsevier journal COPE threatened with sanctions will retract four more articles
- Journal pulls papers following Retraction Watch investigation
- Springer Nature journal pulls nearly three dozen papers from special issues
- Journal retracts more than 50 studies from Saudi Arabia for faked authorship
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to nearly 400. There are more than 46,000 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):
- “Unethical studies on Chinese minority groups are being retracted — but not fast enough, critics say.”
- “This is the current Editorial Team’s last issue of Critical Public Health, following the mass resignation of the Editorial Board.”
- “Dana-Farber retractions: meet the blogger who spotted problems in dozens of cancer papers.”
- “Dana-Farber to Retract 6 Papers, Correct 31 Following Data Manipulation Claims.”
- “Exploring the dimensions of responsible research systems and cultures: a scoping review.”
- “Lessons from retracted publications suggest that readers should assess the reliability of the research findings.”
- “Open-access papers draw more citations from a broader readership,” says a new study.
- “For-profit publishing giants ‘big winners’ of open access push,” says a new study.
- “Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Stephanie Orphan of arXiv.”
- “These results reveal that the largest challenge to reproducibility since introduction of the disclosure policy is data accessibility.”
- “Academic research could be dragged into new EU foreign influence rules.”
- “Germany-based Morressier raises €15.1M to protect research integrity; here’s how.”
- “Potential Issues in Mandating a Disclosure of Institutional Investigation in Retraction Notices.”
- “The definition of research misconduct should be stated in the abstract when reporting research on research misconduct.”
- Two ministers in the Norwegian government are facing plagiarism allegations. One has resigned.
- “Big fall in US non-collaborative papers, as China’s tally rises.”
- “The new rules [in China] notably include a ban on the ‘direct’ use of generative AI tools when applying for research funding and approval.”
- A university in China “has suspended the work of a professor surnamed Huang, who students have accused of academic fraud.”
- “Danish research integrity guidelines will get a much-needed update to consider new fields of research…”
- “During the protest, students also raised the issue of burden on Ph.D. and MS students after the introduction of new credit courses, which require them to publish one paper every semester.”
- “How Many Casualties Would a Plagiarism War Produce?”
- “Harvard…Shares New Details on Gay Plagiarism Review” with House committee.
- “Detecting fraud in scientific publications:…perils and promise of AI.”
- “Researchers plan to release guidelines for the use of AI in publishing.”
- “Harvard Health Stands by Misleading Article on Vaping and ‘Popcorn Lung.'”
- “Editorial viewpoints of scientific publishing for early-career research scientists.”
- “Guest-editing under the spotlight.”
- “From master’s thesis to research publication: a mixed-methods study of medical student publishing and experiences with the publishing process.”
- The University of Western Australia is “silent as judge rules academic lied and subverted science.”
- “This Indian watchdog is cleaning up ‘mess’ in academia—falsification, fabrication & fraud.”
- Promoting reproduction and replication at scale.”
- “The open-science movement for sharing laboratory materials gains momentum.”
- “Emory U. Is Returning 3 Allegedly Looted Antiquities to Greece.”
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