Category: weekend reads

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• University to investigate adjunct professor after allegations of plagiarism – and legal threats
• Article that critiqued high-profile abortion study retracted
• Meet the publisher making the science of Brontë, Faulkner, and Whitman available for the first time
• Researchers lost five papers soon after scientists critiqued another of their papers in Retraction Watch
• Russian philosophy journal cites law banning “LGBT propaganda” in retraction
• Nearing 5,000 retractions: A review of 2022

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 282. There are more than 37,000 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) during a relatively quiet week:

Continue reading Weekend reads: A professor plagiarizes a student; Chat-GPT makes it into the literature; a newspaper archive vanishes

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• That paper with the ‘T’ error bars was just retracted
• Retraction Watch grows again, thanks to a $250,000 grant from the WoodNext Foundation
• The top 10 retraction stories of 2022
• Contamination leads to swift retraction for Science paper on the origins of Omicron in Africa
• Contempt judgment in penile implant spat leads to retraction
• Article on sexual orientation and psych disorders retracted – without the author’s knowledge, he says

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 280. There are more than 37,000 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: UCSF apologizes for prison research; top judge in Mexico accused of plagiarism; peer review under scrutiny

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Mathematician withdraws preprint – 24 years after initial submission
• Penn says access to former Twitter employee’s thesis was ‘mistakenly closed off’ following Elon Musk tweets
• PLOS flags nearly 50 papers by controversial French COVID researcher for ethics concerns
• Cancer researcher banned from federal funding for faking data in nearly 400 images in 16 grant applications
• ‘I never asked or expected to be included as an author’: Retired Penn State prof has three retractions for manipulated peer review

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 279. There are more than 37,000 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: Fringe race science and journals; flags for Stanford president’s papers; rise and fall of peer review

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Board members decry their own journal’s retraction of paper on predatory publishers
• A paper used capital T’s instead of error bars. But wait, there’s more!
• Publisher retracts 400 papers at once for violations of ‘peer-review process policies’
• Professor emeritus loses fourth paper after UCSF-VA investigation, five years after other retractions

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 278. There are more than 37,000 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: Errors in clinical trials; GPT-3 and scientific papers; paleontologist accused of faking data

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Paper about “sexual intent” of women wearing red retracted seven years after sleuths raised concerns (this was our 6,000th post)
• Buzzy Lancet long COVID paper under investigation for ‘data errors’
• Psychologists want to retract old papers about conversion therapy. Elsevier says no.
• ‘Just some eccentric guy in Australia’: The story of a non-retraction for plagiarism
  • ‘Liberals lecture, conservatives communicate’ paper gets lengthy expression of concern

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 277. There are more than 37,000 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: Allegations about Stanford’s president; time to pay peer reviewers?; questions about a publisher mount

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Scientist goes to court to clear his name after fake peer review retractions
• Science paper on sense of taste gets expression of concern as university investigates
• Biotech exec stole an image and reused others while in academia, US federal watchdog says

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 276. There are more than 37,000 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: What should happen to a paper by Theranos?; Diederik Stapel continues to be cited; a scientist accused of hiding China ties wins $2 million

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Journal editor in chief who published controversial Covid papers resigns
• Psychiatrist in Canada faked brain imaging data in grant application, U.S. federal watchdog says
• Why misconduct could keep scientists from earning Highly Cited Researcher designations, and how our database plays a part
• BMJ says it’s “an ongoing effort” to find articles by plagiarizing concussion researcher Paul McCrory
• Another ‘Majorana’ particle paper retracted, this time from Science
• Mathematician requests two retractions for “subtle inaccuracies” 

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 270. There are more than 36,000 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: ‘Illegal practices in palaeontology’; ‘a fake badge of integrity’; researcher jailed

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Exclusive: UCLA found a longtime researcher faked data – but made a strange mistake in its report
• Deceptive Academic Journals: An excerpt from The Predator Effect
• Pain researchers lose three papers after Cochrane group questioned data
• Author critical of study involving abortion hires lawyers after journal flags paper
• “A huge relief”: Journal takes down plagiarized paper after Retraction Watch reporting

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 268. There are more than 36,000 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: A whistleblower finds possible misconduct — again; embracing failure; radical transparency for journals

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This week, it’s a special double edition of Weekend Reads, thanks to a site outage that meant we couldn’t post last Saturday. The last two weeks at Retraction Watch featured:

• How many ducks do you need to line up to get a publication retracted?
• Exclusive: Elsevier retracting 500 papers for shoddy peer review
• “Horrible!”: Scientist finds plagiarized copy of his paper – and can’t get the journal that published it to pay attention
• NIH asked to replace a PI on grants after university said she violated policy
• When editors confuse direct criticism with being impolite, science loses
• Iran’s science minister earns four retractions
• Meet a sleuth whose work has resulted in more than 850 retractions
• US federal research watchdog wants your input (deadline passed 10/31)

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 267. There are more than 36,000 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, double edition: Science’s ‘nasty Photoshopping problem’; Dr. Oz’s publication ban; image manipulation detection software

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Paper co-authored by Australian journalist Maryanne Demasi to be marked with expression of concern
• Catch and kill: What it’s like to try to get a NEJM paper corrected
• Paper co-authored by sleuth Elisabeth Bik marked with expression of concern
• What happened when a psychology professor used a peer-reviewed paper to praise his own blog – and slam others’
• Former medical school dean earns sixth retraction
• Elsevier journal retracts nearly 50 papers because they were each accepted on the “positive advice of one illegitimate reviewer report”
• ‘Mugged by stealth’: Team finds their paper has been plagiarized not once, but twice

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 266. There are more than 36,000 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: A journal ends accept/reject in peer review; more of a Nobelist’s work comes under scrutiny; CNRS director says what he thinks of sleuths