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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Plagiarism scandal engulfs high-profile academic in Latvia
- Journalism with impact: The work of Retraction Watch
- Financial advisor failed to disclose he had sued the organization his paper criticized
- In a Tipster’s Note, a View of Science Publishing’s Achilles Heel
- ‘Deplorable’: Imaging journal to retract nearly 80 papers for compromised peer review
- Paper retracted more than eight months after author admitted to plagiarism
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are now 41,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 200 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?
Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):
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