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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Should Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment be retracted?
- Osaka misconduct investigation leads to four retractions, with more likely
- Editorial board resigns after journal cancels special issue on Palestine
- Food scientist impersonated as an editor and reviewer in Frontiers articles
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500.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):
- “Scientists’ suit against top academic publishers lays bare deep frustration over unpaid peer review.”
- “NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants.”
- “French publishers and authors sue Meta over copyright works used in AI training.”
- Associate editor of Royal Society journal resigns: “Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science.”
- “Scientists Take on Scholarly Journals With Walkouts, Scathing Letters and Delistings.”
- “NASA begins mass firings of scientists ahead of Trump team’s deadline.”
- “Scientists call for sex and gender to be factored in research.”
- “Crediting non-author contributors in scientific publishing.”
- “Don’t Rank Research Universities—Compare Them.”
- “Publishers’ Response to Post-Publication Concerns About Clinical Research in Women’s Health.”
- “Trying to Write a Paper with LLM Assistance.”
- “Last year a top Syrian chemist was murdered. The problem is he never existed.”
- “Inequality measures can serve as proxies for competitiveness and excellence” — for both Nobel citations and Olympic medals.
- “The PhD landscape in Bangladesh: A reality check.”
- “Analysis reveals ethnic minority applicants’ grant success rates still lower.”
- Owners of research facility plead guilty to “fraud charges resulting from their conduct of two clinical trials.”
- “Harvard Medical physicians sue over removal of articles mentioning ‘LGBTQ’ from government website.”
- Researchers look at “the unexpected effect of gender on article retractions.”
- “Blanket sanctions on journals harm researchers’ development.”
- “African HIV vaccine trial stopped due to Trump cuts.”
- Vaccine researchers criticized for “overselling their own findings.”
- “The Australian’s unreliable source”: When a PhD student made false claims about his supervisor.
- “AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement.”
- “Foreign researchers in China face tightening restrictions.”
- Providing cash incentive for completing peer review reports resulted in a modest increase in the share of invited reviewers who complete reviews for a specialty medical journal.
- “‘Wasting time’: CDC to study disproven vaccine-autism link.”
- “Research Misconduct in Indian Universities: Gaming the System.”
- “In bid to expand, bioRxiv and medRxiv preprint servers move to newly formed nonprofit.”
- “AI search summaries cannibalise academic publishers’ web traffic.”
- “Trans youth advocate accused of plagiarism in testimony opposing Arizona’s Save Women’s Sports Act.”
- “Sakana claims its AI-generated paper passed peer review — but it’s a bit more nuanced than that.”
- “Painting a picture of research fraud.”
- Let them eat cake: The “cake-factor” is a way to assess “the excellence of celebration when a paper is published or a grant won.”
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