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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Physics publisher retracting nearly 500 likely paper mill papers
• Exclusive: NIH researcher resigned amid retractions, including Nature paper
• Didier Raoult papers earn expressions of concern as criminal investigation gets underway
• Brain tumor researchers retract paper from Science journal
• Chinese hospital sanctioned at least 35 scientists for research misconduct
• Publisher says it will investigate allegations despite editor’s refusal
• Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza retracts four papers

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 258. There are more than 35,000 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: Fake reproductive health data alleged; ‘bad brains;’ ‘heinous’ misconduct

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• An editor on why he ignores anonymous whistleblowers – and why authors are free to publish ‘bullshit and fiction’
• In four years, a psychosocial counselor co-authored seven papers on disparate medical topics. How?
• When an independent replication isn’t really independent
• Veterinary researcher banned from journal after fourth forthcoming retraction
• Former NCI postdoc faked data, says federal watchdog

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 257. There are more than 35,000 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 tale of deception; hydroxychloroquine in Australia; AI and ML to fix your papers — or write them

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Exclusive: Cancer researcher sues med school for retaliation after research misconduct finding
• Editors-in-chief of aging journal resign en masse after ‘impasse with the Anatomical Society and Wiley’
• Penn maintains wall of silence over now-retired prof as retractions mount
• How a tweet sparked an investigation that led to a PhD student leaving his program
• A former PhD student loses two papers for forging her co-author’s name
• Guest post: What happened when we tried to get a paper claiming ‘billions of lives are potentially at risk’ from COVID-19 vaccines retracted

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 254. There are more than 35,000 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: ‘The Problem of Irreproducible Bioscience Research;’ ‘How to Stop the Unknowing Citation of Retracted Papers;’ data scandal leads to stock drop

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• A tale of (3)2 retraction notices: On publishers, paper mill products, and the sleuths that find them
• White House official banned from publishing in PNAS following retraction
• Imagine learning you’re an author on a paper after it’s retracted for plagiarism
• ‘It’s time to devise a more efficient solution’: Science editor in chief wants to change the retraction process
• On second thought: journal reverses course on paper it agreed to retract last year

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 254. There are more than 35,000 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: ‘Who Cares About Publication Integrity?’; revealing a Galileo forgery; repeat predatory journal authors

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Company’s Alzheimer’s treatment study earns a flag
• ‘A significant departure’: Former Kentucky researcher faked 28 figures in grant applications and papers, say Feds
• Science retracts coral reef recovery paper more than a year after a report on allegations in its own pages
• Doing the right thing: Harvard researchers retract Cell paper after work contradicts finding

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 254. There are more than 35,000 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: Underage sex comic study removed following outrage; postdoc claims retaliation; plagiarism in COVID-19 papers

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• UCLA veteran researcher faked data in 11 grant applications, per Feds
• More than a year ago, an editor agreed a paper should be retracted. It hasn’t been.
• Doctor faces apparent retaliation after alleging data manipulation in published trial
• Leading primate researcher admits to faking data in NIH grant applications, paper
• Happy 12th birthday, Retraction Watch: And what a year it was
• Exclusive: PLOS ONE to retract more than 100 papers for manipulated peer review
• 14 retractions for researchers who falsely claimed US physicist as co-author
• ‘One would not want to tarnish another journal’: Why a republished COVID-19 masks study doesn’t say it was retracted

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 253. There are more than 35,000 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: Are papers retracted often enough?; ‘What makes an undercover science sleuth tick?’; journals dominate prestige rankings

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• An editor invited me to submit a commentary, then he rejected it – and named and blamed me in an editorial
• University of Fukui professor called out for fake peer review, loses “love hormone” paper
• Crystallography database flags nearly 1000 structures linked to a paper mill
• University’s story changes: It requested 33 retractions, not ‘several’
• Exclusive: OSU investigation finds dishonesty and “permissive culture of data manipulation” in cancer research lab

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 253. There are more than 35,000 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: 50 years after Tuskegee; ‘Is psychological science self-correcting?’; ‘The peer review system is broken’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Papers in Scientific Reports – and their expressions of concern – raise questions
• 250th COVID-19 retraction is for faked ethics approval
• Papers in Croce case with “blatantly obvious” problems still aren’t retracted after misconduct investigation: sleuth

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 250. There are more than 34,000 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 sued over retracted paper; ‘retraction with honor’; critiquing our fake peer review coverage

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Author objects to “irrelevant reviewers” as journal retracts four papers
• Meet the hijacked journal that keeps rising from the ashes
• Engineering researcher who cast blame on co-author will soon have 12 retractions
• Lawsuit prompts retraction of book chapter on outdated birth surgery
• Exclusive: Former associate dean and ‘highly cited researcher’ was demoted by university
• Do you use the Retraction Watch Database? We can really use your help.

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 249. There are more than 34,000 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: How to fix peer review; a research ethics oath; papers become less readable

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Japanese university recommends five retractions after investigating botany researcher
• ‘Our deepest apology’: Journal retracts 30 likely paper mill articles after investigation published by Retraction Watch

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 246. There are more than 34,000 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: Retracted papers that keep getting cited; ivermectin retractions; publishing peer reviews