This week at Retraction Watch featured nine more fake peer review retractions, this time from Elsevier, and an update to the retraction count for one-time record holder Joachim Boldt. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Angry meta-analysts; imposter cell lines; when things go wrong
Author: Ivan Oransky
Elsevier retracting nine papers for fake peer review
The fake peer review retraction count continues to mount.
Elsevier is retracting nine papers from five journals because fake email addresses for reviewers were provided during submission of the original manuscripts. According to a statement from the publisher: Continue reading Elsevier retracting nine papers for fake peer review
Weekend reads: FDA nominee authorship questions; low economics replication rates
The week at Retraction Watch featured a mysterious retraction from PLOS ONE, and a thoughtful piece by a scientist we’ve covered frequently on where we went wrong in that coverage. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: FDA nominee authorship questions; low economics replication rates
Weekend reads, part 2: Criminalizing scientific fraud; Nobel Prize folly; boosting impact factor
There were so many items to choose from this week for Weekend Reads — probably because it was Peer Review Week — that we decided to split them into two posts. Here’s part 2: Continue reading Weekend reads, part 2: Criminalizing scientific fraud; Nobel Prize folly; boosting impact factor
Weekend reads, part 1: Editor slams PubPeer; scientific fraud pays off
The week at Retraction Watch featured yet another case of fake peer review, and a court sentence for a Danish researcher found to have committed fraud. Here’s what was happening elsewhere (stay tuned for part 2 tomorrow): Continue reading Weekend reads, part 1: Editor slams PubPeer; scientific fraud pays off
Weekend reads: STAP saga over once and for all?; plagiarizing prof gets tenure
The week at Retraction Watch featured the appeal of a modern-day retraction, and a look at whether a retraction by a Nobel Prize winner should be retracted 50 years later. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: STAP saga over once and for all?; plagiarizing prof gets tenure
Meet the new Retraction Watch researcher, Alison Abritis
Retraction Watch readers, please join us in welcoming the newest member of our staff, Alison Abritis.
To say that Abritis is a good fit for Retraction Watch would be a colossal understatement. Abritis started her PhD in public health at the University of South Florida several years ago, intending to focus on toxicology. But her advisor noticed that every time they met, she would describe problematic papers she was reading. So he suggested that she focus on scientific publishing in her research.
The result was a fascinating dissertation, Continue reading Meet the new Retraction Watch researcher, Alison Abritis
Weekend reads: Country retraction rankings; social psychology department replication rankings
This week at Retraction Watch featured an ironic case of what doesn’t make a journal great, and the retraction of a paper from JAMA. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Country retraction rankings; social psychology department replication rankings
Weekend reads: Backstabbing; plagiarism irony; preprints to the rescue
The week at Retraction Watch featured a call for the retraction of a paper in NEJM, and a withdrawal of a paper because authors couldn’t pay the page charges. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Backstabbing; plagiarism irony; preprints to the rescue
Weekend reads: Journal invents time machine; endless author lists; is nuance overrated?
The week at Retraction Watch featured the unmasking of the people behind PubPeer, and an editor doing the right thing following a high-profile retraction. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Journal invents time machine; endless author lists; is nuance overrated?