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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Journal retracts paper listed on authorship for sale site following Retraction Watch report
- How citation cartels give ‘strategic scholars’ an advantage: A simple model
- Kale ‘miracle food’ paper retracted for being ‘word salad’
- After we tried to correct claims about ‘deadly’ water filters in Flint, we were accused of scientific misconduct—and that was just the beginning
- Failed to properly register your trial? Just use a different study’s number. Actually, don’t.
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 227. There are more than 33,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, 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):
- “U.S. agencies remove more than 100 dogs from controversial breeding and research facility.” Earlier.
- “A university says it supports free inquiry. So why does this pedophilia researcher no longer work there?”
- “Blind spots on western blots: a meta-research study highlighting opportunities to improve figures and methods reporting.”
- “UK physical science funder acts to rid its peer review of gender bias.”
- “Paid publishing in science has killed peer review system, says CSIR’s ex-chief Shekhar Mande.”
- In Denmark, right-wing “MPs maintain push for action over ‘questionable’ research.”
- “Is it possible to have a just politics of citation?”
- “Pivot into COVID-19 research eases as publishing surge starts to level off.”
- Does Spain need a national office of research integrity?
- More developments in the UKRI-Researchfish imbroglio.
- “Study of reproducibility issues points finger at the mice.”
- “Nature journals raise the bar on sex and gender reporting in research.”
- “Psychedelic medicine group investigating a board member accused of financial elder abuse.”
- “Following publication, the authors found they had neglected to include the quarantine state variable in the study model described in Figure 2.”
- “How to Reduce Errors and Improve Transparency by Using More Precise Citations.”
- Leiden University names fraudulent studies after journals fail to act.
- “Sheldon Krimsky, Who Warned of Profit Motive in Science, Dies at 80.”
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