Category: weekend reads

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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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 214.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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 214.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

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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