Category: weekend reads

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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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 254.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• ‘One would not want to tarnish another journal’: Why a republished COVID-19 masks study doesn’t say it was retracted

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 253.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

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• The Lancet more than doubles its impact factor, eclipsing NEJM for the first time ever
• Author demands a refund after his paper is retracted for plagiarism
• Seven months after an author request, journal retracts
• February: ‘we don’t agree there is an issue here.’ June: Retracted.

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 245. 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 COVID-19 papers keep being cited; “‘difficult’ name penalty”; economist accused of plagiarism

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• NYU postdoc with federal research misconduct settlement awarded NIH grant
• An Elsevier journal said it would retract 10 papers two years ago. It still hasn’t.
• UPenn prof with four retractions “may no longer be affiliated” with school
• Papers on Alzheimer’s slapped with expressions of concern

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 238. 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: Publication hijacking; questions about Sputnik vaccine; no more second round of review?

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Retraction leads to review change at SAGE journal
• ‘This has been a nightmare’: One paper was retracted. The other still lingers.
• Journal run by new AMA president-elect caught in special issue scam
• Extensive correction adds to five flagged papers for UPenn professor
• An Elsevier book plagiarizes an abstract published by…Elsevier

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 237. 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: Automated peer review; ‘journal editors resign in protest;’ attention to retracted papers

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• A stolen manuscript, part two: The plagiarist begs for forgiveness as another group plagiarizes the same work
• A paper claimed to describe ‘the first potent and specific anti-COVID-19 drug.’ Now it’s retracted.
• Medical school dean up to five retractions
• Chemistry group at Hokkaido up to three retractions
• Researcher attacks journal for retracting his paper on COVID-19 drug

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 236. 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: ‘Foul play’ among protective scholars; how to increase rigor; science and a ‘culture of misinformation’