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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- NYU postdoc with federal research misconduct settlement awarded NIH grant
- An Elsevier journal said it would retract 10 papers two years ago. It still hasn’t.
- UPenn prof with four retractions “may no longer be affiliated” with school
- Papers on Alzheimer’s slapped with expressions of concern
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 238. 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?
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: Publication hijacking; questions about Sputnik vaccine; no more second round of review?