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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Data sleuth flags 30 randomized clinical trials from researcher in Egypt
- Judge orders cancer researcher’s art collection seized to pay fees from failed libel suit
- Highly cited Lancet long COVID study retracted and republished
- Plague of anomalies in conference proceedings hint at ‘systemic issues’
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300.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?
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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