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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Declaration of Helsinki revision adds nod to research misconduct
- Highly cited engineer offers guaranteed publication, citations in return for coauthorship
- Meet the founder of a 100,000-strong Facebook group driving change in scientific integrity in Vietnam
- How an article estimating deaths from hydroxychloroquine use came to be retracted
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400.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):
- “How science journals are confronting the ‘existential’ question of politics this election.”
- “Most interestingly, the word “delve” showed the highest increase in results by volume in the top 10 growth rate list with 881 more results appearing than the previous years.”
- “What a rise in common spelling errors says about the state of research culture.”
- “A Rock-Star Researcher Spun a Web of Lies—and Nearly Got Away with It.” A link to our coverage.
- “AI: ‘Scientific publishing is not prepared for this.’”
- “AI can carry out qualitative research at unprecedented scale,” professors say.
- “Report shows student involvement in falsification of CU Boulder research.” A link to our previous coverage, and to the report.
- “Detecting New Hijacked Journals by Using a List of Known Hijacked Journals and the Diagnosis of Web Domain Data.” With reference to the Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker.
- “Beware a victory in the anti-publisher US lawsuit.”
- “In conclusion, a group of experienced editorial board members struggled to distinguish human versus AI authorship, with a bias against best in topic for essays judged to be AI generated.”
- “Silverchair Buys ScholarOne from Clarivate.”
- “The infamous journal ‘Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine’ is no more!”
- “Hong Kong leader warns mainland students on fake degrees.”
- “Collaborating with early career researchers to enhance the future of scholarly communication: A guide for publishers.”
- “Our future, we decide: five ways to reform the scientific publication process.”
- “Online encyclopedia is alternative model for scholarly publishing.”
- “I further argue that current institutional matrices impose high transaction costs on (potential) funding agencies of scientific research. This underlies many cases of bad practice in scientific research.”
- “I don’t think it’s helpful to be defensive about your work,” says a co-author of a study of doctors and race.
- University vice president dismissed after having 3 articles withdrawn and not being allowed to work remotely.
- Researcher accused of data fraud “Amends Lawsuit Against Harvard to Claim Gender Discrimination.”
- “The trend and ripple effects of retractions in primary health care.”
- “The study concludes that while algorithms can streamline performance evaluations, they pose significant risks to scientific misconduct of researchers if not properly designed.”
- Researchers ask: “can the retraction of articles endanger the mental health of researchers?” The last author of the editorial has 10 retractions.
- “Author Argues Maryland [university] President ‘Clearly’ Plagiarized” from his work.
- “From fatigue to fulfillment. . . .combating reviewer burnout in scholarly publishing.”
- “Academies call for EU-wide rules on sharing publications.”
- “Thou Shalt Not! – How the institutional afterlife of research misconduct scandals shapes research integrity training.
- “In Defense of ‘Reader 2.’”
- “Why don’t all researchers share their data openly?”
- “I do care about visibility”: comments about eLife losing its impact factor.
- “Are Indian higher education institutes gaming the ranking system?” Our coverage in Science.
- “Key research beagle breeder faces potential criminal probe” for animal cruelty allegations.
- “From scandal to reform: approaches to research integrity at a turning point.”
- Researchers find nearly 30% of papers “that stated significances (or their absence) are based on the presence of a single influential data point.”
- “Guidelines proposed to curb ‘misuse’ of honorary degrees” in South Africa.
- “The stories behind the retractions.” Bonus: Ivan Oransky’s play about immunology.
Upcoming Talk
- Retractions: On the Rise, But Not Enough: Nov. 15 at the University of New Mexico (and virtual) by our Ivan Oransky.
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