Author: Ivan Oransky

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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• Chemist who cooked data claims PhD years after it was revoked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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300.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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: A whistleblower speaks; an ecologist’s suspension is questioned; ‘massive plagiarism’ allegations

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• How many times can a journal be hijacked?
• Journal investigating Sodom comet paper for data problems

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300.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):

Continue reading Weekend reads: ‘A worrying amount of fraud in medical research;’ a society backpedals on sanctions; a plagiarism case becomes even more bizarre

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Paper with authorship posted for sale retracted over a year after Retraction Watch report
• Five years on, convicted transplant surgeon earns expressions of concern from Lancet
• Harvard surgeon has five papers pulled following internal investigation
• Exclusive: Prof stole former student’s identity to edit two journal special issues

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are more than 38,000 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: More allegations about Stanford president; a plagiarizing rabbi; costly spreadsheet mistakes

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• US federal research watchdog gets new permanent director
• ‘I was fired up’: Psychiatrist effort prompts retraction of antidepressant treatment paper
• The Whack-a-Mole problem: Hijacked journal still being indexed in Scopus even after discovery
• How fishy email addresses tipped off a sleuth to a paper mill

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 290. There are more than 38,000 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: Elsevier journal under fire; a researcher’s PhD is revoked; peer review vs. ‘attention-economy hellscapes’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Exclusive: Deepfake pioneer to lose two papers after misconduct finding of faked data
• Scholar calls journal decision on ‘comfort women’ paper ‘rotten at the core’
• Former Harvard researchers lose PNAS paper for reusing data
• Did David Hume retract 2 essays on immorality to avoid religious controversy?
• Prominent Korean heart doctor earns two retractions in a month

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 289. There are more than 38,000 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):

Continue reading Weekend reads: Autism researcher up to 24 retractions; former prof sues Penn State; vice chancellor under criminal probe for plagiarism

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• ‘Kafkaesque nightmare’: Judge wants researcher reinstated as NIH grant PI after med school’s misconduct finding
• Publisher investigating “serious concerns” about article on ivermectin, COVID, and the microbiome
• J&J subsidiary alleges fraud in paper that linked cosmetic talc with mesothelioma
• Springer Nature retracts chapter on sign language deaf scholars called “extremely offensive”

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 289. There are more than 38,000 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: ‘Against Reviewer 2;’ forced to grant guest authorships; problems in oversight of bat virus research in China

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Reddit post prompts retraction of article that called Trump ‘the main driver of vaccine misinformation on Twitter’
• Ob-gyn who called criticism ‘racist’ and ‘hate speech’ earns retraction, several expressions of concern
• Influential paper linking recessions and left-wing voting patterns retracted
• Urologist blames Big Pharma as concerns mount over his research

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 286. There are more than 38,000 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: ‘Breakthroughs’ slowing down?; self-publishing among editors; data tampering in space science

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Police investigating after Polish journal accuses authors of ‘crime of plagiarism’
• Judge orders OSU cancer researcher to pay $1 million to lawyers from failed libel suit
• Japanese university asks surgeon to retract eight ‘fraudulent’ papers
• Russian publishing watchdog decries ‘retraction misuse’ following ban on ‘LGBT propaganda’
• Was a paper from Taiwan retracted because of a geopolitical dispute? 

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 285. There are more than 38,000 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):

Continue reading Weekend reads: ChatGPT fools scientists; did COVID-19 trials cut corners?; do scientific societies need journals?

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Elsevier journal temporarily removes article by prolific psychologist – with a typo at “frist”
• President of Iranian university in ‘serious breach of ethical standards’
• Paper on writing centers as ‘neocolonial tools’ is retracted

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 283. There are more than 38,000 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):

Continue reading Weekend reads: China cracks down; unearned authorship rife; new jargon for a new year

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• University to investigate adjunct professor after allegations of plagiarism – and legal threats
• Article that critiqued high-profile abortion study retracted
• Meet the publisher making the science of Brontë, Faulkner, and Whitman available for the first time
• Researchers lost five papers soon after scientists critiqued another of their papers in Retraction Watch
• Russian philosophy journal cites law banning “LGBT propaganda” in retraction
• Nearing 5,000 retractions: A review of 2022

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 282. There are more than 37,000 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) during a relatively quiet week:

Continue reading Weekend reads: A professor plagiarizes a student; Chat-GPT makes it into the literature; a newspaper archive vanishes