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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Exclusive: Cancer researcher sues med school for retaliation after research misconduct finding
- Editors-in-chief of aging journal resign en masse after ‘impasse with the Anatomical Society and Wiley’
- Penn maintains wall of silence over now-retired prof as retractions mount
- How a tweet sparked an investigation that led to a PhD student leaving his program
- A former PhD student loses two papers for forging her co-author’s name
- Guest post: What happened when we tried to get a paper claiming ‘billions of lives are potentially at risk’ from COVID-19 vaccines retracted
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 254. 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?
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 Problem of Irreproducible Bioscience Research;’ ‘How to Stop the Unknowing Citation of Retracted Papers;’ data scandal leads to stock drop