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Springer Nature un-retracts Planck papers, citing “human error”

Today the Retraction Watch list of Nobelists who have retracted papers bids Verabschiedung to Max Planck.

After days of scrutiny, Springer Nature has restored two papers by Planck, who won the Nobel for Physics in 1918, reversing a 2011 decision to retract the articles for “copyright violations.”

Both articles are back, and now carry the following statement:

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Physicist in Iraq fired over publishing scam claims fake Columbia affiliation in new paper
Sex pay ban paper earns a retraction after a long and winding road for an unhappy author
Editors of Courant math journal to leave Wiley, establish new roots with independent publisher
Computer science society creates new research integrity role to address case backlog

In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 65,000 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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Physicist in Iraq fired over publishing scam claims fake Columbia affiliation in new paper

Five months after he was fired by ministerial order, an Iraqi professor of physics at the center of a massive publishing scam submitted a manuscript to a Wiley chemistry journal claiming affiliation with Columbia University in New York City.

The paper also stated the physicist, Oday A. Al-Owaedi, was affiliated with the University of Babylon in Hilla, Iraq, although he was permanently dismissed from his position last year.

As we reported at the time, Al-Owaedi defrauded “researchers by collecting money from them under the pretext of publishing their papers in reputable international journals as promised, while in fact falsifying and forging publication in fake websites,” according to a ministerial order we obtained.

Weekend reads: A tsunami of misleading medical studies; retraction calls cancer therapy timing into question; a closer look at Max Planck’s retractions

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Springer Nature to start issuing expressions of concern for books
A prolific evolutionary biologist caught faking data decades ago notches a new retraction
Major citation index put surgery journals on hold following Retraction Watch investigation
Increasing workload may have contributed to recent retraction at nursing journal, editor says

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Weekend reads: Media star loses doctorate for plagiarism; journal editor resigns for AI concerns; university removes dean for fabricating data

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Publisher investigating two more papers on glyphosate safety over ghostwriting claims
Economist outs another Indian university’s rankings-boosting scheme when they refuse to pay him
Journal investigating paper on cognitive impact of generative AI
Some Wikipedia citations to retracted papers persist for years, study finds
RFK Jr. has various stances on retractions. Critics say he’s ‘politicizing’ them

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Weekend reads: Uneven sanctions for misconduct; protein name confusion in hundreds of papers; the Journal of Research on Research

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Court dismisses biochemist’s lawsuit against MD Anderson
Journal retracts depression treatment study with findings called ‘too good to be true’
New system for flagging retracted papers finds scores of them in Cochrane reviews
Science flags paper that found AI chatbots help debunk conspiracy theories

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Weekend reads: Moffitt executive steps down following probe; a hijab-switching scandal; NSF’s watchdog unit empty

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Journal retracts paper criticizing parental alienation theory after group threatens to sue
Journal retracts study linking hepatitis vaccine to autism that was included in CDC review
Editors of semantics journal resign, launch new journal after publisher ‘ultimatum’

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Weekend reads: White House proposal prohibits federal funds for APCs; sleuths say Thermo Fisher doctored data; sleuth in China takes to social media

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Critics of birdsong study fight to be named in Nature’s retraction
Elsevier retracts study tying sudden infant death syndrome to vaccinations
A researcher’s unusually high h-index gives a window into an expansive citation network
Under new framework, Vietnam researchers face bans and funding cuts for violating integrity rules
In what EIC calls an ‘honest mistake,’ journal approves paper without peer reviewing it

Also the deadline for our Ctrl-Z Award is this Sunday! This $2,500 award recognizes scientists who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record. More details and nomination form here.

In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 400 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 65,000 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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Weekend reads: arXiv to ban researchers with hallucinated references; U.S. restrictions on foreign coauthors; retracted papers by Max Planck

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

New rule in Peru restricts authors with retractions from getting special bonuses
‘Comically bad’ datasets used to train clinical models for stroke and diabetes
Feud between physicists ends in defamation verdict
How the media hypes “research that is absurd on its face”
Widely criticized keto diet study retracted

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Weekend reads: Autism-vaccine researcher arraigned; ‘accidental watermarks’ in medical literature; mass resignations and zombie journals

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Elsevier retracts the least and reinstates the most, new analysis finds
Reviewer finds ‘top pharmaceutical scientist’ has a self-citation problem
Elsevier journal removes two 42-year-old papers on cesium as a cancer treatment
Nine years after journalist raised concerns, BMJ Group journal retracts stent paper

In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 400 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 64,000 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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