Author: Ivan Oransky

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Plagiarism scandal engulfs high-profile academic in Latvia
• Journalism with impact: The work of Retraction Watch
• Financial advisor failed to disclose he had sued the organization his paper criticized
• In a Tipster’s Note, a View of Science Publishing’s Achilles Heel
• ‘Deplorable’: Imaging journal to retract nearly 80 papers for compromised peer review
• Paper retracted more than eight months after author admitted to plagiarism

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are now 41,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 200 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: A fraudster is sentenced to prison; how another reinvented himself; RFK Jr.’s retraction, redux

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Data sleuth flags 30 randomized clinical trials from researcher in Egypt
• Judge orders cancer researcher’s art collection seized to pay fees from failed libel suit
• Highly cited Lancet long COVID study retracted and republished
• Plague of anomalies in conference proceedings hint at ‘systemic issues’

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are now 40,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 200 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: A weird scandal gets weirder; rapid onset gender dysphoria paper retracted; the effects of retractions on careers and collaborations

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• How a now-retracted study got published in the first place, leading to a $3.8 million NIH grant
• Did a ‘nasty’ publishing scheme help an Indian dental school win high rankings?
• “Flagrant and frankly, inexcusable” data duplication leads to retraction
• Journal pulls paper from Ethiopia for unlicensed use of questionnaire

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are now 40,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 200 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: How a rejected study led to a $3.8 million grant; a ‘nasty’ publishing scheme; the ‘darker side of science’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Exclusive: Alleged research misconduct cost Turkish surgeons tenure
• Scientist with six retractions wins challenge of firing, funding ban
• In the Death of an Iranian Scientist, Hints of Unchecked Strife

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are now 40,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 200 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: How university rankings lead to bad science; how to report research misconduct; the impact of Retraction Watch reporting

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Three journals’ web domains expired. Then major indexes pointed to hijacked versions
• After backlash, publisher to retract article that surveyed parents of children with gender dysphoria, says co-author
• ‘Stop playing with my life,’ researcher about to be up to 10 retractions asks sleuth
• Dutch university can revoke PhD for fake data, court rules

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are now 40,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 200 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: A Nobel winner’s seventh retraction; Stanford’s president fights back; what should go into a retraction notice

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• ‘Compromised’ survey data leads to article retraction and university investigation
• Guest post: When whistleblowers need lawyers
• Researcher loses PhD after admitting to fudging images
• Texas dept. chair no longer in position amid university investigation and retraction
• Exclusive: Top-tier university in Japan investigating prof’s alleged misconduct

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are now 40,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 200 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Study claiming masks harm is retracted; papers lead to high treason charges; paying to publish in fake journals

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Paper with authorship posted for sale retracted nearly two years after Retraction Watch report
• Spider researcher Jonathan Pruitt faked data in multiple papers, university finds
• Retractions should not take longer than two months, says UK Parliament committee
• Prominent nanoscientist retracts paper after PhD students flagged error
• Article that assessed MDPI journals as “predatory” retracted and replaced

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are now 40,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 200 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Paying cash to boost rankings; billions lost from reformatting manuscripts; ‘the truth police’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Australian study supporting mask mandates earns expression of concern
• Leading primate researcher demoted after admitting he faked data
• Hindawi shuttering four journals overrun by paper mills
• Chemist in India loses seven papers, blames outsourcing of images
• Nature editors retract influential cancer paper with “unreliable” data 

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are nearly 40,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 200 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Men vs. women in fraud; how to improve peer review; homeopathy data manipulation

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Former cancer research center director plagiarized and faked data, feds say
• US-backed researchers in Colombia accused of experimenting on animals, humans without approval
• ‘Frankly abusive’: More questions about the journal that stole an author’s identity
• Torturing data to predict bitcoin prices: A book excerpt
• A response to a public records request that raised more questions than it answered

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are nearly 40,000 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: ‘No gender bias in academic science;’ an editor is fired; foreign research fraud in Australia