Category: weekend reads

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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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 289.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?

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: ‘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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 286.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?

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: ‘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?

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: ChatGPT fools scientists; did COVID-19 trials cut corners?; do scientific societies need journals?

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Elsevier journal temporarily removes article by prolific psychologist – with a typo at “frist”
• President of Iranian university in ‘serious breach of ethical standards’
• Paper on writing centers as ‘neocolonial tools’ is retracted

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 283. 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?

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: China cracks down; unearned authorship rife; new jargon for a new year

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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