Category: weekend reads

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Meet Retraction Watch’s two new journalists
• Elsevier denies AI use in response to evolution journal board resignations
• Biotech company agrees to pay $4 million to settle data falsification allegations
• Science paper by Toronto lab retracted
• The 14 universities with publication metrics researchers say are too good to be true

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 450. 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: ‘Lack of informed consent’ in DNA data; protecting the ‘prey’ of predatory journals; another ivermectin-COVID-19 retraction

Dear RW readers, can you spare $25?

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Introducing the Retraction Watch Sleuth in Residence Program

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 450. 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?

Continue reading Weekend reads: ‘Honest overachievers;’ the unpublished Lucy Letby paper; ‘atom-thin salami slicing’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Journals investigating dozens of papers by leading Canadian urologists
• Finland Publication Forum will downgrade hundreds of Frontiers and MDPI journals
• A look back at 2024 at Retraction Watch, and forward to 2025
• Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 450. 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?

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: The top 10 stories of 2024; 31 novels about scientific misconduct; how retractions become weaponized

Dear RW readers, can you spare $25?

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• EcoHealth Alliance retracts and replaces paper on potential origin of COVID-19 in bats
• Journal won’t retract paper that involved human organ transplants in China
• Journal that published viral study on black plastic removed from major index
• Researcher linked to paper mill activity mysteriously reappeared on list of journal’s editorial board

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 450. 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?

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: Shoddy commentaries flood journals; key hydroxychloroquine paper retracted; a researcher confesses

Dear RW readers, can you spare $25?

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Former Harvard researcher, now at Moderna, loses paper following postdoc’s report
• Dean in Bulgaria accused of plagiarism
• 19 months and counting: Former Hindawi journal still hasn’t marked paper
• Bribery offers from China rattle journal editors. Are they being scammed?
• Exclusive: Researcher who received settlement to leave University of Iowa won’t be starting new job

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 450. 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?

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: ‘Race science’ under review; researcher blames critiques on anti-LGBTQ discrimination; the politics of the politics of smell

Dear RW readers, can you spare $25?

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Crossref suspends company’s membership after Retraction Watch report
• Wiley medical journal retracts dozens of papers for manipulated peer review, with more to come
• Science places expressions of concern on two articles as Toronto’s Sinai Health investigates

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 450. 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?

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 misconduct advent calendar; false affiliation scam ends; RW in Canada’s Parliament

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Smithsonian Magazine pulls article for ‘errors’ after criticism of linked map of Israel
• Exclusive: New hijacking scam targets Elsevier, Springer Nature, and other major publishers
• Company linked to cloned journals of major publishers denies cloning journals of major publishers
• Cancer researcher admitted faking data

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 450. 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?

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: Cassava’s Alzheimer’s drug fails; new journal hijacking scam; Hong Kong academic jailed

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Wiley corrects retraction notices for ‘inaccurate’ description of why articles were pulled
• Cancer specialist faked data in at least ten papers, VA and UCLA find
• ‘Relieved’: BMJ retracts and replaces article on unexpected weight loss as a sign of cancer
• Mega journal Cureus kicks out organizations critics called paper mills

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?

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: When Dr. Oz appeared in Retraction Watch in 2014; Didier Raoult in the news again; superconductivity researcher out

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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?

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: 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?

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