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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• University of Toronto should take action on flawed breast screening study, says longtime critic
• Experiment using AI-generated posts on Reddit draws fire for ethics concerns
• AI-Reddit study leader gets warning as ethics committee moves to ‘stricter review process’
• Why has it taken more than a year to correct a COVID-19 paper?
• A Ph.D. in paper mills? 
• Former cancer researcher who sued university for discrimination hits 35 retractions

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 58,000 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: Journal halts submissions, citing NIH cuts; rejected paper published by ‘mistake’; feds cancel grant amid misconduct allegations

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Suspended UK surgeon earns nine expressions of concern, one withdrawal
• UC Davis research director loses three papers for image manipulation
• Sodom comet paper to be retracted two years after editor’s note acknowledging concerns
• ‘Squared blunder’: Google engineer withdraws preprint after getting called out for using AI

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 58,000 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: Retractions as censorship; the carbon footprint when science doesn’t self-correct; NEJM vs. the feds

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Chinese funding agency sanctions 26 researchers in latest misconduct report
• Biochemist with previous image duplication retractions loses another paper
• A new journal record: Sage title retracts 678 more papers, tally over 1,500
• Medical societies call for BMJ to retract ‘misleading and irresponsible’ guideline

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 58,000 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: Journals get letters from feds; invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’; should universities release misconduct reports?

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Math journal editors resign to launch open-access title ‘free from pressure or influence’
• Indian university’s channel on publisher’s platform disappears
• A ‘joke’: Paper with ‘completely irrelevant’ citations retracted
• Replication probe finds ‘statistically improbable data’ tied to institute in Bangladesh

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 58,000 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: Scientists won’t submit paper for deportation fears; watchdog: oversight lacking at EPA research group; ‘life after paper mills’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Wiley journal retracts over 200 more papers
• COVID-19 vaccine myocarditis paper raises questions about what earns post-publication peer review
• Do men or women retract more? A study found the answer is…complicated
• Misappropriation of undergraduate work leads to study retraction
• Former Italian university head faces retractions and criminal investigations

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 58,000 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: How NIH is quietly stalling research; integrity concerns found at clinical trial org; experiments in paid peer review

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Journal retracts letter about pager explosion injuries in Lebanon
• Sequence errors are ‘canaries in a coal mine’ in genetics studies, sleuth says
• Why RFK Jr.’s pick for a vaccine-autism review may be familiar to Retraction Watch readers
• Former VA physician admitted to altering images and deleting data, documents show

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 58,000 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: On errors and consequences; AI in peer review; Canada’s PM accused of plagiarism

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• A second article describing new pain syndrome under scrutiny
• Kidney researcher debarred from federal U.S. funding for image manipulation
• Why do nearly 45,000 scholarly papers cite themselves?
• Cureus paper by dean and medical student retracted for mislabeled ECG
• Dental researchers fabricated data in two articles, university investigation found

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 57,000 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: Inside mass resignations; Ukraine’s “stolen institutions”; federal U.S. cuts hit journal subscriptions

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Should Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment be retracted?
• Osaka misconduct investigation leads to four retractions, with more likely
• Editorial board resigns after journal cancels special issue on Palestine
• Food scientist impersonated as an editor and reviewer in Frontiers articles

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 57,000 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: Frustration over unpaid peer review; NIH axes research grants; publishers sue Meta

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Five studies from ‘Bust Size and Hitchhiking’ author retracted
• ICYMI: Dean under investigation for plagiarism following Retraction Watch story: report
• Was nonsense ‘vegetative electron microscopy’ phrase a Farsi typo?
• Seven years after ‘noncompliance’ finding, whistleblowers push for retractions
• His manuscript was rejected. Then he saw it published by other authors
• Don’t tread on me: Snake paper retracted for ‘soft-stepping’ technique

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 57,000 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: Former NIH director suddenly retires; more on patent mills; journal editors talk damage control

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• IQ paper gets expression of concern as misconduct fallout continues
• Exclusive: Extensive correction to Genentech PNAS article will get an update after RW inquiry
• A critique of our cofounders’ recent piece in The Atlantic
• Author forges document to claim USDA affiliation
• Exclusive: U.S. federal research integrity teams take hits with departures

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 57,000 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:  Same data, opposite conclusions; ‘Death by ax’; ‘plastics in your brain’