Category: weekend reads

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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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 227.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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 227.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?

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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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Surgeon on trial over experiments; hydroxychloroquine-promoting doctor reprimanded; questions about concussion research

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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