Weekend reads: Happy birthday, Retraction Watch!; a mysterious conference; extreme publishing; research parasites revisited

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 50,000 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):

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One thought on “Weekend reads: Happy birthday, Retraction Watch!; a mysterious conference; extreme publishing; research parasites revisited”

  1. I couldn’t digest why so called western publications/journal have to charge thousand dollar for APC for manipulating AI. I understand researchers from non-native English translating their work from indigenous language using AI is credible and legit. What I can’t stand: those so called prestige journal generating fake studies by fully manipulating AI and doing zero field research still received quotations. Credible journals eg Elsevier supposely publishing original work and not relying on APC greed capitalism.

    Thanks to Retractionwatch!

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