Category: weekend reads

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• COVID-19-vitamin D paper retracted by Springer Nature journal
• Study on reducing parents’ anxiety about children’s circumcision retracted
• More than 300 at once: Publisher retracts entire conference proceedings
• What we’ve learned from public records requests. Please help us file more.
• Authors blame ‘unintentional oversight’ for including image of deceased patient in paper
• 8 years after three papers are flagged — and after losing original correspondence — PLOS ONE retracts

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 221.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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Should ‘peer reviewers be paid?’; Kim Kardashian and conflicts of interest; scandal costs millions in grants

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Misconduct, failure to supervise earn researchers years-long funding bans
• Is a “Wall of Shame” a good idea for journals?
• Researchers in China send a hospital “declaration” clearing them of fraud. A journal doesn’t buy it.
• Hundreds of dead rats, sloppy file names: The anatomy of a retraction
• Triple sunrise, triple sunset: Science paper retracted when it turns out a planet is a star

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 219. 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: White academic’s book about Black feminism pulled; retraction notices as a genre; forget the scientific paper?

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Cancer researcher faked data for 24 images in work funded by nine NIH grants: Federal watchdog
• The author of a retracted paper learns to be careful what he wishes for
• Journals acknowledge that a critical “reader” has a name: Elisabeth Bik

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 219. 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: Should open access advocates vilify publishers?; authorship for sale, $5,000; is economics just ‘bafflegab?’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Einstein fired researcher in 2019, more than two years before ORI finding
• Firing, publishing ban, 15 retractions for author who ‘defrauded’ co-authors in pay-to-publish scheme
• Five studies linked to Cassava Sciences retracted
• Doing the right thing: Neuroscientist announces retractions in ‘the most difficult tweet ever’

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 219. There are more than 33,000 retractions in our database — which now 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: Plagiarism in biblical scholarship; revelations about publishing ‘lab leak’ preprint; publishing sanctions on Russia

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• The 21-year-old apology – and retraction from JAMA
• Harvard eye researchers have eight papers retracted for lack of ethical approval
• Einstein duo faked data in 16 federal grant applications: ORI
• So what happened with that Biogen Aduhelm study, anyway?
• Will the real Tim Chen please stand up? A trip down the rabbit hole of deceit
• Fake sex researcher loses zoophilia paper over ethical concerns
• How critics say a computer scientist in Spain artificially boosted his Google Scholar metrics

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 215. There are more than 33,000 retractions in our database — which now 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: Concussion researcher faces more scrutiny; ‘Mendel the fraud?’; seeking redemption after misconduct finding

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Study of cryotherapy for COVID-19 anosmia fails the sniff test
• Psych journal in revolt as it publishes paper saying masturbation and gay sex are harmful
• Award-winning Berkeley postdoc faked data, says federal watchdog
• Murder by Theory: Tales from the Ivory Tower’s Dark Side
• Nanotech researchers cleared of fraud but failed to supervise cheating grad student: University

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 214. There are nearly 33,000 retractions in our database — which now 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: False data in Columbia rankings?; data service accused of intimidating researchers; preprint server removes ‘inflammatory’ papers

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Authors request retraction of study in Nature journal and look into four more papers
• Study on teen pot use goes up in smoke, then reappears
• UNC-Chapel Hill vice chancellor resigns post after admitting to plagiarism
• Lancet journal retracts, replaces paper on treatment for pancreatic cancer
• UNC-Chapel Hill vice chancellor admits to plagiarism
• Often, retractions take years. This one took three days.
• Engineers’ research starts to look shaky as retractions mount

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 214. There are now more than 32,000 retractions in our database — which now 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: Journals’ Russia bans; a chronic fatigue syndrome retraction; a Twitter retraction notice feature?

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Sports medicine researcher Paul McCrory requests another retraction
• Journal editor explains ban on manuscripts from Russian institutions
• NASA researchers retract Nature paper on climate change and evapotranspiration
• Was leading sports medicine researcher’s plagiarism ‘an isolated and unfortunate incident?’
• Author asks ‘Why? Why? And why?’ as his paper is retracted
• ‘This is frankly insulting’: An author plagiarized by a journal editor speaks

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 213. There are now more than 32,000 retractions in our database — which now 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: An academic and a Russian spy; concussion expert resigns from committee; publishing peer reviews

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• How to find evidence of paper mills using peer review comments
• Journal retracts a paper it published with a missing table after author fails to provide it
• Which takes longer to produce: An infant who can sit on his own, or a retraction?
• Publisher retracts 350 papers at once
• Authors whose Springer Nature book was retracted for plagiarism solicit chapters for another
• A U.S. federal science watchdog made just three findings of misconduct in 2021. We asked them why.

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 213. There are now more than 32,000 retractions in our database — which now 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: ‘Published crap;’ randomized grant awards; ‘Problems in Science Publishing’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• ‘I needed a publication in order to submit my thesis’: Author admits to stealing a manuscript
• Science issues expression of concern nine months after one of its reporters uncovers potential misconduct
• Publisher cancels special issue honoring plagiarizing dean following Retraction Watch inquiries
• Preprint on discrimination against women reinstated by Elsevier server after removal for legal threats
• Journal retracts a paper, then publishes it in an issue 11 months later

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 211. There are now more than 32,000 retractions in our database — which now 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: Paying for publication?; deeper looks at citation practices; preprints and retractions