Category: weekend reads

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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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 245.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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 238.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• ‘This has been a nightmare’: One paper was retracted.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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 237.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’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Want to know whether that journal is scamming you? Introducing the Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker
• Cornell food marketing researcher who retired after misconduct finding is publishing again
• Urology researcher under investigation for double-dipping has another paper retracted
• A hare-raising expression of concern after an author hires a third party to get a paper published
• Former Weill Cornell cancer researcher up to 20 retractions; investigation’s findings are with Feds
• Widely touted abstract on ivermectin and COVID-19 retracted

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 229. 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: Researcher has paper retracted, then earns promotion; is peer review ‘more cavalier, self-serving, and ignorant?’; a ‘weird notice’ for all a publisher’s papers

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Journal about ‘ambient intelligence’ retracts more than 50 papers at once
• The “internet may be a challenging venue”: Biomedical engineering group up to four retractions
• Drug researchers in Russia have four papers subjected to expressions of concern
• ‘Inadvertently published’ paper by pharma employee retracted almost a year later

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 227. 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: Female driver stereotypes; ‘stealth research’; AI comes to fake scientific images

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Journal retracts paper listed on authorship for sale site following Retraction Watch report
• How citation cartels give ‘strategic scholars’ an advantage: A simple model
• Kale ‘miracle food’ paper retracted for being ‘word salad’
• After we tried to correct claims about ‘deadly’ water filters in Flint, we were accused of scientific misconduct—and that was just the beginning
• Failed to properly register your trial? Just use a different study’s number. Actually, don’t.

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 227. There are more than 33,000 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: Dogs removed from controversial research facility; ‘an unacceptable idea’; ‘blind spots on western blots’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Journal retracts C-section paper with ‘impossible’ data
• ‘A terrifying experience’: A team of researchers does the right thing when they find an error
• Another ivermectin-COVID-19 paper is retracted
• A college that doesn’t exist. An email address that goes dark. Who wrote this paper?
• ‘Conclusions related to vaccine safety are not validated’: COVID-19 spike protein paper retracted

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 226. There are more than 33,000 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: Why was a paper’s acceptance rescinded?; kinder peer review; plagiarism in a plagiarism atonement essay

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Elsevier retracts papers when it realizes one of the authors hid fact he was guest editor of issue
• UPenn prof retracts three papers for ‘substantive questions’

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 223. There are more than 33,000 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: ‘The science crisis’; Peru president plagiarism probe; does a Nature cover help or hurt citations?

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Authors retract second Majorana paper from Nature
• Dermatology journal calls for investigation into Bordeaux-INSERM work
• Nanotech group up to nine retractions
• Chemistry paper retracted from Science
• Journal issues 55 expressions of concern at once

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 221. There are more than 33,000 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: Surgeon on trial over experiments; hydroxychloroquine-promoting doctor reprimanded; questions about concussion research