Author: Retraction Watch Staff

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

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Another Sydney investigation of astrophysicist leads to retractions
• Game theory society yanks support for journal after Elsevier fails to renew EIC contract
• Federal U.S. judge tosses $1 billion defamation lawsuit against Elsevier
• Springer Nature journal could lose registry standing for clearing author of duplication
• Scientific Reports on hold in PubMed while NLM reevaluates journal

In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 68,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions is approaching 800, 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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Continue reading Weekend reads: Mega-journal on hold at PubMed; 1,400 retractions in one day; ‘I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper’

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

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Japanese institute finds materials researcher with 41 retractions guilty of ‘extensive’ manipulation
• Journal founded by plastic surgeon touts studies of products he’s tied to – including one that has been retracted
• Thousands of research studies violate journal policies on collaborations between editors and authors
• Journal updates retraction notice as Princeton student author stays in the spotlight

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 800, 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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Continue reading Weekend reads: Journals and the ‘Mathpocalypse’; autism paper earns EOC; Cell Press investigating bribery allegations

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

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• A company named Springer that isn’t the publisher is offering authorship for sale. And now it isn’t, following our story.
• Authors respond with ‘a bit like a threat’ after journal reveals postdoc’s identity
• Former Crick Ph.D. student loses COVID vaccine paper for fabrication
• Paper touted by MD Anderson gets expression of concern for data ‘concerns’
• Journal retracts, republishes paper on Long COVID treatment trial

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 800, 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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Continue reading Weekend reads: Computer science conferences impose caps; Lancet strikes to continue; Is this the ‘mathocalypse’?

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

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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.

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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Continue reading 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:

• 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

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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Continue reading 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:

• 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

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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Continue reading 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:

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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