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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Exercise researcher earns more retractions as investigations mount
- Another setback for ‘Majorana’ particle as Science paper earns an expression of concern
- Journal retracts 122 papers at once
- Paper retracted because authors ‘misrepresented a published theoretical model as if they had found it’
- Paper claiming a lack of evidence COVID-19 lockdowns work is retracted
- Researcher uses fake email address to submit a paper mill manuscript without corresponding author’s knowledge
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 203. There are now more than 31,000 retractions in our database — which now powers retraction alerts in EndNote, Papers, and Zotero. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers?
Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):
- “If fraudulent and faulty research is a systematic, serious problem — and it is — it needs a systematic, serious solution.”
- “Iowa State University settles with former professor for $275,000.”
- “‘Science is flawed’: COVID-19, ivermectin, and beyond.”
- “Yet despite the close link, it took 16 months for the Lancet to publish a memo setting out Mr Daszak’s conflicts of interest.“
- “[I]nvestigations should fully embrace their responsibilities by making full, specific findings regarding intent to ensure that scientists are not being severely and unduly punished merely for making a mistake.”
- “Retraction of flawed [marine protected area] MPA study implicates larger problems in MPA science.”
- Evidence that “subversion of randomization” occurred in a Canadian mammogram study.
- A journal corrects a typo in a nucleotide sequence reagent. Only 711 more to go.
- “Medics asked to avoid plagiarism in research articles.”
- In South Africa, “Review of science journals shows strengths and weaknesses.”
- “Inquiry finds OHSU misconduct investigations are subpar.”
- “The Road to Double-Anonymous Peer Review.”
- “Journal retracts paper based on DNA of vulnerable Chinese minorities.”
- “Our Societies, Journals, and the Narrative of Accessibility and Equity in Open Research.”
- “Who’s on first? Duking out scientific paper authorship order.”
- “What Sci-Hub’s latest court battle means for research.”
- BOGUS: “We offer the first guidelines for underwhelming studies.” The BMJ’s Christmas issue is out.
- “Catholic University in Rome Attracts Criticism for Handling of Plagiarism Accusations.”
- “Why p-values are not measures of evidence.”
- The BMJ has a new editor in chief.
- “Environmental groups call on EPA to take stronger action on reports of falsified chemical safety assessments.”
- “Do peers share the same criteria for assessing grant applications?”
- A Romanian minister resigns amid plagiarism allegations.
- “We’re pleased to announce that Clarivate has partnered with The Center For Scientific Integrity, the parent nonprofit of Retraction Watch to identify retracted journal articles stored within EndNote™ desktop libraries quickly.”
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