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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- University of Sydney dean working to amend review papers that cited papermill articles
- University vice president for research contests retraction for image issues
- Caught by a reviewer: A plagiarizing deep learning paper lingers
- Pharmaceutical researcher faked data in two papers, says federal watchdog
- Indonesian university dean dismissed, barred from teaching, asked to apologize
- Neuroscience journal retracts eight articles for image distortion
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are nearly 49,000 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):
Continue reading Weekend reads: Another vaccine-autism retraction; ‘Why We Commit Academic Fraud’; on a psilocybin-depression correction