Category: weekend reads

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Exclusive: UCLA found a longtime researcher faked data – but made a strange mistake in its report
• Deceptive Academic Journals: An excerpt from The Predator Effect
• Pain researchers lose three papers after Cochrane group questioned data
• Author critical of study involving abortion hires lawyers after journal flags paper
• “A huge relief”: Journal takes down plagiarized paper after Retraction Watch reporting

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 268. There are more than 36,000 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: A whistleblower finds possible misconduct — again; embracing failure; radical transparency for journals

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This week, it’s a special double edition of Weekend Reads, thanks to a site outage that meant we couldn’t post last Saturday. The last two weeks at Retraction Watch featured:

• How many ducks do you need to line up to get a publication retracted?
• Exclusive: Elsevier retracting 500 papers for shoddy peer review
• “Horrible!”: Scientist finds plagiarized copy of his paper – and can’t get the journal that published it to pay attention
• NIH asked to replace a PI on grants after university said she violated policy
• When editors confuse direct criticism with being impolite, science loses
• Iran’s science minister earns four retractions
• Meet a sleuth whose work has resulted in more than 850 retractions
• US federal research watchdog wants your input (deadline passed 10/31)

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 267. There are more than 36,000 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, double edition: Science’s ‘nasty Photoshopping problem’; Dr. Oz’s publication ban; image manipulation detection software

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Paper co-authored by Australian journalist Maryanne Demasi to be marked with expression of concern
• Catch and kill: What it’s like to try to get a NEJM paper corrected
• Paper co-authored by sleuth Elisabeth Bik marked with expression of concern
• What happened when a psychology professor used a peer-reviewed paper to praise his own blog – and slam others’
• Former medical school dean earns sixth retraction
• Elsevier journal retracts nearly 50 papers because they were each accepted on the “positive advice of one illegitimate reviewer report”
• ‘Mugged by stealth’: Team finds their paper has been plagiarized not once, but twice

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 266. There are more than 36,000 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 journal ends accept/reject in peer review; more of a Nobelist’s work comes under scrutiny; CNRS director says what he thinks of sleuths

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• In 1987, the NIH found a paper contained fake data. It was just retracted.
• ‘A big pain’: Professor up to six retractions for plagiarism and manipulated peer review
• ‘A display of extreme academic integrity’: A grad student who found a key error praises the original author
• Concussion researcher Paul McCrory earns nine more retractions, nearly 40 expressions of concern

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 265. There are more than 36,000 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 bizarre turn in a plagiarism case; lessons of the ‘replication crisis’; special issues redux

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Paper by gene therapy Zolgensma developer retracted because of discrepancies in mouse survival rates
• Med school vice dean says he’s correcting paper amid negative misconduct inquiry
• A grad student finds a ‘typo’ in a psychedelic study’s script that leads to a retraction
• When failure to correct a flawed paper could put patients’ lives at risk
• Frankincense extract paper is 30th retracted by former MD Anderson researcher who once threatened to sue Retraction Watch

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 265. There are more than 36,000 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: Whistleblowers win a victory; a look at COVID-19 retractions; journals as sewage treatment plants

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Dental school dean up to five retractions for cancer research papers
• Can you explain what these 1,500 papers are doing in this journal?
• Exclusive: Hindawi and Wiley to retract over 500 papers linked to peer review rings
• When emails asking to withdraw manuscripts started repeating themselves, an editor got suspicious

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 264. There are nearly 36,000 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: Troubles in Romania; an erroneous erratum about fraud; Nature and discriminatory science

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Journal says ivermectin study met standard for ‘credible science’
• Former Iranian government official up to two retractions, five corrections
• A journal did nothing about plagiarism allegations for a year. Then the tweets (and an email from Retraction Watch) came.
• Fired postdoc faked recommendation letters from supervisor, OSU alleges
• UCLA walks back claim that application for $50 million grant included fake data

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 261. 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: ‘Papermill alarm’ software; questions about a study of prosthetics; what do publishers stand for?

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Stanford prof appeals order to pay $428K in legal fees after dropping defamation suit
• Journal sends cease-and-desist letter to a company marketing a homeopathic alternative to opioids
• How journal editors kept questionable data about women’s health out of the literature years before retractions
• One chiropractic manipulation patient injury. Two case reports. Two editor’s notes.

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 260. 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: Russian co-authorship ban; predatory conferences; ‘Does peer review improve the statistical content of manuscripts?’

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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