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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• ‘All the red flags’: Scientific Reports retracts paper sleuths called out in open letter
• Retraction Watch is hiring! Two journalism jobs available
• eLife won’t get an impact factor, says Clarivate
• Engineering publisher pulled 57 papers in a day for peer review ‘irregularities’

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 50,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 300 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: RFK Jr’s 2011 retraction; ‘the great AI witch hunt’; scientific misconduct in Switzerland

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Embattled rocket scientist loses paper following Retraction Watch report
• University of Newcastle investigating top melanoma researchers
• Another Springer Nature journal has retracted over 300 papers since July
• Complaint from engineering software company prompts two retractions

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 50,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 300 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Top Alzheimer’s researcher on leave; president calls for superconductivity researcher to be fired; continued citation of retracted papers

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Declaration of Helsinki revision adds nod to research misconduct
• Highly cited engineer offers guaranteed publication, citations in return for coauthorship
• Meet the founder of a 100,000-strong Facebook group driving change in scientific integrity in Vietnam
• How an article estimating deaths from hydroxychloroquine use came to be retracted

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 50,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Science journals and the U.S. presidential election; ‘delve’ and spelling errors in the literature; PruittGate revisited

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Reflecting on research misconduct: What’s next for the watcher community?
• Young employee’s death puts workplace culture in spotlight at publisher MDPI
• Cambridge researcher pulls Cell paper five years after Nature, Science retractions
• eLife latest in string of major journals put on hold from Web of Science

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 50,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Puberty blockers paper remains ‘unpublished because of politics;’ ‘What Drugmakers Did Not Tell Volunteers in Alzheimer’s Trials;’ ‘Ginger Rogers science’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Journal pulls pesticide article a year after authors engaged lawyer to fight retraction decision
• Springer Nature journal has retracted over 200 papers since September
• Psychology journal apologizes for paper with ‘biased language’ about Tibet
• Plagiarizing papers retracted from engineering journal after Retraction Watch report

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 50,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Retractions at Columbia; retractions for a rector; the early days of peer review

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• After saying it would retract an article, Cureus changed its mind
• Former Columbia University psychiatrist committed research misconduct, says federal watchdog
• Exclusive: Cancer researchers in Iran under investigation as questions swirl around dozens of studies
• Retractions begin for chemist found to have faked data in 42 papers
• A journal switches to a new publisher, then corrects a paper. What should happen to the old version?

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 50,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: ‘A lab in recovery’; ‘my paper was proved wrong’; a journal apologizes

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Web of Science puts mega-journals Cureus and Heliyon on hold
• Hidden hydras: uncovering the massive footprint of one paper mill’s operations
• New engineering dean has two retractions for authorship manipulation
• Pain researcher in Italy up to seven retractions
• Authors sue Sage over “discriminatory” retractions of papers cited in abortion pill case

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 50,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Retractions by Nobel Prize winners; privatizing peer review; fake mouse brains

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• 1 in 7 scientific papers is fake, suggests study that author calls ‘wildly nonsystematic’
• Publisher adds temporary online notifications to articles “under investigation”
• Homeopathy for cancer paper extensively corrected after watchdog agency requested retraction

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 50,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Top NIH neuroscientist out amid suspicion; the issue with special issues; an ingredient derailed experiments

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Exclusive: One university’s three-year battle to retract papers with fake data
• First paper retracted in string of studies using the wrong medication name
• Exclusive: Providence VA hires scientist previous employer found had harassed mentees
• Exclusive: Editorial board member quits over journal’s handling of plagiarized paper
• Penn State barred embattled professor from doing research

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 50,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Harm reduction for peer review; finding reviewers; fake journals

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Pakistan university’s pharmacy department chair notches two retractions
• Former Harvard cancer researcher plagiarized data, federal watchdog says
• Penn State prof earns second retraction, faces third following university probe
• ‘Stealth corrections’: when journals quietly fix papers
• Nobel prize-winner tallies two more retractions, bringing total to 13

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 50,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Lawsuits filed and dismissed; ‘the rise of the science sleuths;’ research assessment culture