Category: weekend reads

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• ‘Compromised’ survey data leads to article retraction and university investigation
• Guest post: When whistleblowers need lawyers
• Researcher loses PhD after admitting to fudging images
• Texas dept. chair no longer in position amid university investigation and retraction
• Exclusive: Top-tier university in Japan investigating prof’s alleged misconduct

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are now 40,000 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Study claiming masks harm is retracted; papers lead to high treason charges; paying to publish in fake journals

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Paper with authorship posted for sale retracted nearly two years after Retraction Watch report
• Spider researcher Jonathan Pruitt faked data in multiple papers, university finds
• Retractions should not take longer than two months, says UK Parliament committee
• Prominent nanoscientist retracts paper after PhD students flagged error
• Article that assessed MDPI journals as “predatory” retracted and replaced

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are now 40,000 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Paying cash to boost rankings; billions lost from reformatting manuscripts; ‘the truth police’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Australian study supporting mask mandates earns expression of concern
• Leading primate researcher demoted after admitting he faked data
• Hindawi shuttering four journals overrun by paper mills
• Chemist in India loses seven papers, blames outsourcing of images
• Nature editors retract influential cancer paper with “unreliable” data 

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are nearly 40,000 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Men vs. women in fraud; how to improve peer review; homeopathy data manipulation

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Former cancer research center director plagiarized and faked data, feds say
• US-backed researchers in Colombia accused of experimenting on animals, humans without approval
• ‘Frankly abusive’: More questions about the journal that stole an author’s identity
• Torturing data to predict bitcoin prices: A book excerpt
• A response to a public records request that raised more questions than it answered

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are nearly 40,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: ‘No gender bias in academic science;’ an editor is fired; foreign research fraud in Australia

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Exclusive: Former Tufts researcher suspended from animal work after abuse
• A professor found her name on an article she didn’t write. Then it got worse
• Earthquake destroyed data, claims Japanese prof found to have faked results
• Debate over whether video games ‘rot kids’ brains’ won’t be settled by this retraction
• Guest post: What happened when we tried to get a book with misinformation about our field retracted

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are more than 39,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Harvard group’s work under scrutiny; editorial board resigns en masse; a concussion study hits a brick wall

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Former Yale prof faked data, says Federal watchdog
• Journal hasn’t retracted ‘Super Size Me’ paper six months after authors’ request
• Author denies Chinese censorship prompted COVID-19 retraction
• ‘Misleading’ and ‘false’ portrayal of racism-related experiences leads to retraction

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are more than 39,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Plagiarism allegations swirl around superconductor scientist; the ice cream studies no one wants to talk about; when fraud doesn’t pay

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• “Unapproved euthanasia” of rats in neuroscience study leads to retraction
• High-profile paper that used AI to identify suicide risk from brain scans retracted for flawed methods
• Wiley and Hindawi to retract 1,200 more papers for compromised peer review
• Five years after saying it won’t retract Macchiarini paper, journal does so
• A high-quality cloned journal has duped hundreds of scholars, and has no reason to stop
• ‘Sad but necessary’: Ant researchers pull fossil paper over errant claim

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are more than 39,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Drug company loses defamation suit against journal; Canada a whistleblower wasteland?; UT-Austin can revoke degrees after all

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Journal pulls papers by embattled scientist at national research center in France
• One small error for a physicist, one giant blunder for planetary science
• Exclusive: Committee recommended pulling several papers by former Cornell med school dean
• Norway demotes Hindawi journal after claims one published a stolen paper
• “Bust Size and Hitchhiking” author earns five expressions of concern
• Exclusive: Australia space scientist made up data, probe finds

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are more than 39,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Scientist suspended for 13 years; a fraud buster; editor home bias?

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• In unusual move, publishers remove authors victimized by forger
• Paper co-authored by controversial Australian journalist earns expression of concern
• Nearly 20 Hindawi journals delisted from leading index amid concerns of papermill activity
• A journal editor once told us authors were free to publish ‘bullshit and fiction.’ Apparently his publisher disagrees.

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are more than 39,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: A bizarre shark story ends in a retraction; one scientist’s decades-long fight; the math wars

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• After a sleuth reveals a paper with authorships advertised for sale, it’s retracted
• Here’s one article that won’t be making any top 50 papers list
• Gov’t committee in Pakistan lets plagiarizing vice-chancellor off the hook
• When it takes two university-federal agency letters – and five years – for a journal to retract a paper
• When journals don’t meet their ethical guidelines, will anyone hold them accountable?

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are more than 39,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: ‘Strife at eLife’; fraudulent science at Monsanto; cats and chatbots writing papers