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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- IQ paper gets expression of concern as misconduct fallout continues
- Exclusive: Extensive correction to Genentech PNAS article will get an update after RW inquiry
- A critique of our cofounders’ recent piece in The Atlantic
- Author forges document to claim USDA affiliation
- Exclusive: U.S. federal research integrity teams take hits with departures
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 57,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 300 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):
- “Even faced with the same data, ecologists sometimes come to opposite conclusions.”
- “‘Death by ax’: Fate of millions of research animals at stake in NIH payments lawsuit.”
- “‘Spoonful of plastics in your brain’ paper has duplicated images.”
- “Will AI jeopardize science photography? There’s still time to create an ethical code of conduct.”
- “Six in 10 universities ‘consider dropping big publishing deals.’”
- “How blowing the whistle on the Theranos scandal transformed Erika Cheung’s career.”
- “Increasing transparency of decision making in research practice: adding value or just more red tape?”
- “It’s quite shocking how few clinical academics there are,” say clinical researchers.
- RFK Jr. bases claim that vaccination is killing children on researcher who withheld data, sleuth says.
- “The fragile state of peer review: Can open science fix the system?”
- A faculty training program tackles “improving how allegations of research misconduct are handled.” From the research integrity team involved in the Deborah Kelly case.
- “End to approved journal list ‘blow’ to Indian research quality.”
- “IEEE Has a Pseudoscience Problem.”
- “The last two-author neuroscience paper?”
- Revisiting Ethiopia’s retraction rate, featuring the Retraction Watch Database.
- “MSU shields info on how it exonerated dean accused of plagiarism.”
- “Over half of the retracted articles” in India were “published in journals with an impact factor of less than one,” researchers find.
- “The false promise of ‘publish or perish’ culture.”
- Tata Institute of Social Sciences “Launches Inquiry Into Misconduct Allegations Against Ex-Professor Amid Harassment And Defamation Claims.”
- “An overview of studies assessing predatory journals within the biomedical sciences.”
- “Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies.”
- “Move beyond ‘publish or perish’ by measuring behaviours that benefit academia.”
- A Russian scientist got a 5-year suspended sentence for allegedly falsifying research results, though some question the case against him.
- Shanghai university “researcher expelled for academic misconduct.”
- Researchers find the “majority” of retracted studies by Taiwan-affiliated researchers “were published in Web of Science-indexed journals.”
- “AI detectors are poor western blot classifiers.”
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