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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Controversial rocket scientist in India threatens legal action after journals pull papers
- Send lawyers, Einstein and Maugham: Authors object to PLOS ONE retraction
- Exclusive: Psychology researcher loses PhD after allegedly using husband in study and making up data
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 48,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 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? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?
Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):
- “Judge dismisses superconductivity physicist’s lawsuit against university.”
- “Retractions are part of science, but misconduct isn’t — lessons from a superconductivity lab,” according to Nature.
- Marseille prosecutor finds no grounds to prosecute Elisabeth Bik after Didier Raoult complaints.
- “Juan Manuel Corchado has managed to be the only candidate for rector of the University of Salamanca despite falsifying his resume until he seems like a world eminence.” How he did it.
- “Such agenda-driven scientists pursue an a priori mission, whose achievement justifies any means, even if it includes to willfully manipulate and interpretate data, or to violate good practices of integrity in the sciences.”
- “The image of our higher education is once again damaged by revelations of alleged academic misconduct in scientific publications by a professor.” An op-ed from Indonesia.
- A U.S. VA biologist has paper retracted after the VA found she had faked data, which she denied.
- “Are Academic Publishers Ignoring the Theft of Ukrainian Fossils?”
- “Two Decades of Scientific Misconduct in India.”
- “Delayed retraction sampling.”
- “NEJM Begins Limiting Access for Certain News Organizations.”
- “Umm Al-Qura University to take legal action in the case of erring research scholar.”
- “The nuts and bolts (and emotions!) of responding to reviewers.”
- “Replication Crisis in Sport and Exercise Science.”
- “Beyond the traditional: Extending academic libraries’ roles in research integrity based on the causes of research misconduct.”
- “Key concepts in clinical epidemiology: Research Integrity definitions and challenges.”
- “An external regulator is not the solution to academic misconduct.”
- “Louisiana’s flagship university lets oil firms influence research – for a price.”
- “Copycat don caught again.”
- “Plagiarism scandals rock Norway as second minister quits government.”
- Former Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who resigned following an investigation, has left the university for “biotech’s new AI mega-startup.”
- “Courtroom sketch of accused killer retracted because artist allegedly drew… a tiny mushroom.”
- “Prevalence, Characteristics, and Trends in Retracted Spine Literature: 2000 – 2023.”
- “Infected blood scandal: Children were used as ‘guinea pigs’ in clinical trials.”
- “Why fake research is rampant in China: Eleven students aim to set a better example.”
- “Algorithm ranks peer reviewers by reputation — but critics warn of bias.”
- “ASU student newspaper retracts 24 articles written with generative AI.”
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