Category: weekend reads

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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 450.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

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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 450.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

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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

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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?

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: 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?

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: 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?

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 lab in recovery’; ‘my paper was proved wrong’; a journal apologizes