Category: weekend reads

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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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300.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

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Wiley paused Hindawi special issues amid quality problems, lost $9 million in revenue
• Article retracted when authors don’t pay publication fee
• Ob-gyn loses PhD after committee finds he made up research
• Journals dismiss claims that Harvard researcher’s work on race is ‘pseudoscience’

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300.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?

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: ‘Is economics self-correcting?’; ’20 years of ‘terror’ in the laboratory’; a look at self-citations

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Legal scholar who claimed false affiliations moves on to creating dubious legal yearbooks
• Chemist who cooked data claims PhD years after it was revoked
• Two years ago, an author asked a journal to withdraw a paper. It still hasn’t.

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are nearly 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 whistleblower speaks; an ecologist’s suspension is questioned; ‘massive plagiarism’ allegations

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• How many times can a journal be hijacked?
• Journal investigating Sodom comet paper for data problems

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are nearly 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 worrying amount of fraud in medical research;’ a society backpedals on sanctions; a plagiarism case becomes even more bizarre

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Paper with authorship posted for sale retracted over a year after Retraction Watch report
• Five years on, convicted transplant surgeon earns expressions of concern from Lancet
• Harvard surgeon has five papers pulled following internal investigation
• Exclusive: Prof stole former student’s identity to edit two journal special issues

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are more than 38,000 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: More allegations about Stanford president; a plagiarizing rabbi; costly spreadsheet mistakes

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• US federal research watchdog gets new permanent director
• ‘I was fired up’: Psychiatrist effort prompts retraction of antidepressant treatment paper
• The Whack-a-Mole problem: Hijacked journal still being indexed in Scopus even after discovery
• How fishy email addresses tipped off a sleuth to a paper mill

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 290. There are more than 38,000 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: Elsevier journal under fire; a researcher’s PhD is revoked; peer review vs. ‘attention-economy hellscapes’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Exclusive: Deepfake pioneer to lose two papers after misconduct finding of faked data
• Scholar calls journal decision on ‘comfort women’ paper ‘rotten at the core’
• Former Harvard researchers lose PNAS paper for reusing data
• Did David Hume retract 2 essays on immorality to avoid religious controversy?
• Prominent Korean heart doctor earns two retractions in a month

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 289. There are more than 38,000 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: Autism researcher up to 24 retractions; former prof sues Penn State; vice chancellor under criminal probe for plagiarism

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• ‘Kafkaesque nightmare’: Judge wants researcher reinstated as NIH grant PI after med school’s misconduct finding
• Publisher investigating “serious concerns” about article on ivermectin, COVID, and the microbiome
• J&J subsidiary alleges fraud in paper that linked cosmetic talc with mesothelioma
• Springer Nature retracts chapter on sign language deaf scholars called “extremely offensive”

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 289. There are more than 38,000 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: ‘Against Reviewer 2;’ forced to grant guest authorships; problems in oversight of bat virus research in China

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Reddit post prompts retraction of article that called Trump ‘the main driver of vaccine misinformation on Twitter’
• Ob-gyn who called criticism ‘racist’ and ‘hate speech’ earns retraction, several expressions of concern
• Influential paper linking recessions and left-wing voting patterns retracted
• Urologist blames Big Pharma as concerns mount over his research

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 286. There are more than 38,000 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: ‘Breakthroughs’ slowing down?; self-publishing among editors; data tampering in space science

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Police investigating after Polish journal accuses authors of ‘crime of plagiarism’
• Judge orders OSU cancer researcher to pay $1 million to lawyers from failed libel suit
• Japanese university asks surgeon to retract eight ‘fraudulent’ papers
• Russian publishing watchdog decries ‘retraction misuse’ following ban on ‘LGBT propaganda’
• Was a paper from Taiwan retracted because of a geopolitical dispute? 

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 285. There are more than 38,000 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: ChatGPT fools scientists; did COVID-19 trials cut corners?; do scientific societies need journals?