Category: weekend reads

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Ivermectin papers slapped with expressions of concern
• More than 100 of an anesthesiologist’s papers retracted
• KCL investigation finds misconduct in Lancet Neurology paper
• Philadelphia-area lung researcher up to six retractions
• Biotech’s ‘cell squeezing’ technology paper earns expression of concern

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 211.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: Weaponizing doubt; pharma’s lawsuit against journal dismissed; ‘misconstrued misinformation’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Paper used to support claims that ivermectin reduces COVID-19 hospitalizations is withdrawn by preprint server
• University president in Japan self-plagiarized and will forfeit some pay
• French ocean institute goes public about authors who forged their researchers’ names
• Vice chancellor in Pakistan sues researcher whose work he plagiarized – and says he was the victim
• Paper overestimated risk of COVID-19 to endangered apes
• ‘Amateur bullshit’ is the price to pay for democratizing scholarly publishing, says editor
• University recommends seven more retractions for psychology researcher

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 209. 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: ‘Death threats, ghost researchers and sock puppets’; high levels of duplication in Russian science; DNA barcoding fraud?

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Paper on “suspicious activities” on India-China border retracted
• ‘[T]he authors plagiarised a large amount of text, but…retractions should not be used as a tool to punish authors’
• Court injunction forces gastro journal to slap expressions of concern on 40 articles about probiotics
• Expressions of concern mount for heart researchers over data provenance
• Wiley snafu costs an early-stage researcher his first paper

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 208. There are now more than 32,000 retractions in our database — which now powers retraction alerts in EndNote, 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: Academia with and without peer review; bogus journals; rector found guilty of misconduct

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Authors admit to stealing parts of a paper from a thesis on an unrelated subject
• Should residents and fellows be encouraged to publish systematic reviews and meta-analyses?
• How an ivermectin study that didn’t mention COVID-19 fell under scrutiny
• ‘My egregious delay’: Science journal takes more than three years to retract paper after university investigation
• Courage and correction: how editors handle – and mishandle – errors in their journals
• Two abstracts about unapproved heart technology retracted

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 207. There are now more than 32,000 retractions in our database — which now powers retraction alerts in EndNote, 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: Academic fraud factories; zombie science; ‘Silicon Valley’s new obsession’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Exclusive: How a researcher faked data and gaslit a labmate for years
• COVID-19 spike protein paper earns an expression of concern
• Frontiers retracts a dozen papers, many more expected
• Authors to correct PNAS ‘nudge’ paper that cites now-retracted article in the same journal

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 206. There are now more than 32,000 retractions in our database — which now powers retraction alerts in EndNote, 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 White House official’s retraction; ‘bosom peril;’ nonsense with a forged authorship

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• ‘This is really ridiculous’: An author admitted plagiarism. His supervisor asked for a retraction. The publisher said, “nah.”
• University of Rochester cancer researchers included ‘incorrect images’ in 13 papers, committee finds
• Cancer journal with hefty retraction record retracts another 15
• Authors unhappy as “battlefield acupuncture” paper earns an expression of concern
• Paper on ‘language reclamation’ and decolonization plagiarized from eight papers, journal acknowledges

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 206. There are now more than 32,000 retractions in our database — which now powers retraction alerts in EndNote, 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 museum of scientific misconduct?; authorship misconduct; uproar over renamed phyla

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• 2021: A review of the year’s 3,200 retractions
• ‘A clusterf**K’: Authors plagiarize material from NIH and elsewhere, make legal threats — then see their paper retracted
• ‘Highly professional, but the process seems to take a long time’: Is this the best way to correct the record?
• Medical journal retracts letter calling hijab ‘an instrument of oppression’

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 205. There are now more than 32,000 retractions in our database — which now powers retraction alerts in EndNote, 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 Russian paper mill under an X-ray; AI and doctored images; COVID-19 vaccine paper earns scrutiny

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• ‘Why did this take over five years?’ Reflecting on two new retractions
• Harvard journal retracts paper on Black advocacy in elections
• AHA journal tones down abstract linking COVID-19 vaccines to risk of heart problems
• Court tosses $50 billion suit by ‘prince of panspermia’ against Springer Nature
• Researchers ‘devastated’ after finding manipulated data in study of pediatric brain tumors
• Two expressions of concern arrive for papers linked to beleaguered biotech Cassava
• Revealed: The inner workings of a paper mill
• Elsevier subjects entire special issue of journal on COVID-19 to an expression of concern

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 204. There are now more than 32,000 retractions in our database — which now powers retraction alerts in EndNote, 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: Academania; redaction bias; a Harvard star falls; top retractions of 2021

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Exercise researcher earns more retractions as investigations mount
• Another setback for ‘Majorana’ particle as Science paper earns an expression of concern
• Journal retracts 122 papers at once
• Paper retracted because authors ‘misrepresented a published theoretical model as if they had found it’
• Paper claiming a lack of evidence COVID-19 lockdowns work is retracted
• Researcher uses fake email address to submit a paper mill manuscript without corresponding author’s knowledge

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 203. There are now more than 31,000 retractions in our database — which now powers retraction alerts in EndNote, 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: ‘Fraudulent and faulty research;’ a $275K settlement — but resignation — for a professor; ‘COVID-19, ivermectin, and beyond’

Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Paper on canine gastrointestinal illness dogged by lack of disclosures
• Scholar with a history of making up author names has a 1985 paper corrected
• Student of yoga tourism won’t get PhD as he earns five retractions
• Researchers sound alarm on ‘predatory’ rankings
• Paper on sexual orientation and neuropsychiatric disorders earns an expression of concern
• Pentagon-funded Duke research on soldier brain damage under investigation

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 200. There are now more than 31,000 retractions in our database — which now powers retraction alerts in EndNote, Papers, and Zotero. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Hundreds of researchers in China sanctioned; phony finance research; results of the cancer research reproducibility project