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Weekend reads: OpenAI’s preprint dump; Taylor & Francis to leave Informa; arXiv’s preprint cap

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Editor-in-chief resigns amid probes of alleged citation manipulation, data errors
Wildlife journal issues corrections for missing ethics statements
A paper suggested a paleontologist’s fossil was a forgery. He wants it retracted
OpenAI withdraws three preprints 1 day after releasing 722 manuscripts on unsolved math problems.
‘Cerebral torment’: IOP retracts nearly 100 conference papers for tortured phrases

In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 67,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions is approaching 700, and our mass resignations list has more than 50 entries. We keep tabs on all this and more. If you value this work, please consider showing your support with a tax-deductible donation. Every dollar counts.

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Weekend reads: China intensifies crackdown on misconduct; AI flooding medical journals with ‘meaningless’ research; Sham scientific societies

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Journal investigating paper on heart device with registration number for wrong trial
When open data are misused
‘Hot mess’ paper questioning CO2 and climate change gets retracted
Announcing the First Research Accountability Reporting Fellows: Our collaboration with The Open Notebook.

We’re honored to be the subject of a paper published this week: Retraction Watch is “a significant example of the long‐anticipated, but little‐realised, idea of watchdog science journalism,” Declan Fahy writes.

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Weekend reads: ‘The Weimar of knowledge’; ‘Could AI Be Better at Peer Review Than Humans?’; guidelines in South Korea ban hidden prompts, restrict AI use

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Misconduct case dropped against AI expert after claims of AI use in recent book
Elsevier journal retracts 100+ papers for authorship issues, editor conflicts of interest
Wiley investigating book chapter on biodiversity for fake references
Tennessee researcher heads to court amid claims of theft, forgery and revenge
Above and beyond: An editor wanted authors to know they’d been falsely cited

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Weekend reads: An expression of concern for Nobel Prize winner; DOJ official queried journals on ‘partisan’ views; AI research’s ‘synthetic validity’ problem

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Diabetes association turmoil roils journal as group tries to thwart boycott
CEO of AI company loses paper on cognitive impact of generative AI
Lawsuit over retraction of abortion pill papers heads toward arbitration decision
Lancet union declares first-ever strike over staff wages
Paper mill studies get cited by clinical guidelines, policy docs and more, analysis finds

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Weekend reads: The afterlife of retracted articles; ADA denies it censored opinions; a ‘twisted phantasmagory’ of ghostwriting

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Editors of higher education journal coauthor editorial with fake references
Researchers appeal misconduct finding over studies of trans youth
PeerJ retracts study that secretly observed tourists’ reactions to snakes
Editors of French journal on corporate responsibility resign after ownership transfer

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Weekend reads: The AI ghosts ‘contaminating’ academic publishing; court upholds whistleblower suits; Ariely paper retracted after sleuths flag tampering

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Study by Duke’s Dan Ariely retracted after sleuths find signs of data tampering
Journal retracts paper claiming network of corridors inside the Great Pyramid of Giza
Oxford researchers retract Nature paper on ‘atmospheric thirst’ for calculation errors

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Weekend reads: Institute defends Nobel Prize winner; Stanford ex-president tries to refute fraud allegations; cardiologist’s ‘monstrous’ conflict of interest

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Editors of economics journal resign after Elsevier doesn’t renew EIC’s contract
Guest post: The uncomfortable truth an explosion of papers reveals about authors’ access to data
Elsevier to ‘soon investigate’ two Macchiarini papers more than a year after retraction request
Japan institute defends Nobel Prize winner amid allegations of image duplication
University press removes book about intelligent design for misquoting ID proponent

In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 66,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions is approaching 700, and our mass resignations list has more than 50 entries. We keep tabs on all this and more. If you value this work, please consider showing your support with a tax-deductible donation. Every dollar counts.

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Weekend reads: Senators ask FDA for more oversight following deaths in China clinical trials; image duplication in Alzheimer’s papers; ‘AI Is Ruining Scholarship’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Sage issues dozens of retractions from two journals it acquired
A New Zealand journal deleted a paper for potential harm to Māori months after publishing it
Ceramics journal pulls dozens of papers flagged for integrity concerns
Defamation suit demanding Elsevier retract paper heads closer to trial

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Weekend reads: Tragic news on former Cambridge prof; A ‘never AI’ research company was AI after all; OpenAI’s math breakthroughs don’t add up

As we were assembling this week’s Weekend Reads, we learned the tragic news that former Cambridge professor Jason Arday had been found dead in his home. Arday has been the subject of several news stories in recent weeks, including at Retraction Watch. We are shocked and saddened by the news of his death. Our hearts are with his friends and family.

If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. There is also an online chat at 988lifeline.org. Find a helpline in your country in this guide.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

BMJ Group retracts paper on COVID-19 vaccines and mortality featured in Senate hearing
Biology journal pulls 100+ articles and counting from special issues for peer review manipulation
JAMA journal won’t retract oxycodone paper despite author request, citing no ‘falsification’
Princeton student says she did not conduct the experiments described in her now-retracted paper. A follow-up to our earlier story: A college student had to retract her paper. The move was ‘the starting point for a better study’

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Weekend reads: Second gene editing death in China reported; Jason Arday’s resignation from Cambridge; Retraction Watch’s sweet 16

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Celebrating Retraction Watch’s 16th birthday, how sweet it is
High-profile anesthesiologists earning retractions for data, image problems
Meet the inaugural winners of our Ctrl-Z Award, honoring the courage it takes to retract published work
A composer published a paper on theoretical physics. His lack of credentials drew criticism
RFK Jr. questions another publisher on expression of concern for a vaccine paper
Decade-long fraud by market survey firm a ‘gut punch’ for researchers
Clarivate removes hold on mega-journal Heliyon after internal audit, 650+ retractions

In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 66,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions is up to 650, and our mass resignations list has more than 50 entries. We keep tabs on all this and more. If you value this work, please consider showing your support with a tax-deductible donation. Every dollar counts.

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