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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Legal scholar who claimed false affiliations moves on to creating dubious legal yearbooks
- Chemist who cooked data claims PhD years after it was revoked
- Two years ago, an author asked a journal to withdraw a paper. It still hasn’t.
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are nearly 39,000 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):
- “Hunter College Whistleblower: Suit Was to End ‘Luxury Vacations, Fraud Schemes, Bloated Bonuses.’”
- “Documents raise questions about UCLA’s suspension of ecologist.” More from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
- “Ex-professor at Tokyo MBA school accused of massive plagiarism.”
- “Effective quality control in the medical literature: investigation and retraction vs inaction.”
- “Leaked: EU member states set out to reform scientific publishing.”
- “Papers that get more media coverage ‘less likely to replicate,’” a study finds.
- A defense of the ICMJE authorship guidelines.
- “[A]uthors who added the coerced citations report significantly greater publication success than those who resist.”
- “Hyperauthorship: the publishing challenges for ‘big team’ science.” How do thousands of authors work together?
- “Recommendations for Proactively Addressing Authorship Disputes.”
- “A Mummers Farce – Retractions of Medical Papers conducted in Egyptian Institutions.”
- “The Lancet’s expression of concern – too little, too late.”
- “The Contribution of Moral Case Deliberation to Teaching RCR to PhD Students.”
- “The Complutense University distances itself from Esquivel’s doctoral degree.”
- “Medical advertisements and scientific journals: Time for editors and publishers to take a stance.”
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