Category: weekend reads

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• When authors stop responding to requests for data, a journal retracts
• COVID-19 vaccine-myocarditis paper to be permanently removed: Elsevier
• Four years after anesthesiology society’s request, four articles remain unretracted
• Plagiarism of a thesis earns authors a retraction — and a two-year-publishing ban
• Exclusive: Urology researcher demoted after misconduct investigation — then becomes chair at another school
• Report by former Motherisk lab director of cocaine exposure in a child is subjected to an expression of concern

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 188. There are now more than 30,000 retractions in our database. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately?

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: “Passing the professor,” documented; “tortured phrases;” a “catastrophic failure of peer review”

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Company fires employee, ends cash for citation scheme following Retraction Watch post
• Another journal distances itself from cash for citations after Retraction Watch report
• Paper linking COVID-19 vaccines to myocarditis is temporarily removed without explanation
• Lancet retracts 10-year-old case report
• Publisher investigating paper a lucrative scale is based on following Retraction Watch reporting
• When ‘out of print’ really means ‘retracted’
• Scientist blames grad student for gibberish book chapter — a charge she calls ‘crazy’
• Publisher does a “thorough sweep” of alternative medicine journal after a paper is published in error

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 183. There are now more than 30,000 retractions in our database. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately?

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: Peer review during the pandemic; CEO out after doctored research; more on COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis

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:

• Journal distances itself from cash for citations scheme after Retraction Watch report
• ‘We have done a terrible job’: Journal retracts, replaces paper on mosquito-borne infections
• A correction is retracted (sort of)
• Publisher retracts paper with ethics committee discrepancy after question from Retraction Watch

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 166. And there are now more than 30,000 retractions in our database.

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: Attacks on scientists; NAS ousts researcher; how much it costs to publish

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:

• Leading marine ecologist, now White House official, violated prominent journal’s policies in handling now-retracted paper
• How one US organization hopes to make retractions more visible
• Here’s what happened when a publisher looked more closely at a paper milled paper
• Retraction of review of broccoli’s health benefits is 22nd for deceased author, 5th for one of his postdocs
• Author defends paper claiming COVID-19 vaccines kill five times more people over 65 than they save
• Elsevier corrects a retraction notice following questions from Retraction Watch

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 162. And there are now more than 30,000 retractions in our database.

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Continue reading Weekend reads: A lawsuit over a cell line; criminal charges for a science agency; nonsense in prestigious journals

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Researcher leaves Wistar Institute as he retracts a Nature paper
• Scale whose copyright owner defends zealously falls under scrutiny — and journal takes two years to publish a critique
• Springer Nature slaps more than 400 papers with expressions of concern all at once
• Paper that ripped off a PhD thesis is retracted
• Kyoto University fires researcher for fraud in Kumamoto earthquake studies
• Criticism engulfs paper claiming an asteroid destroyed Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 160. And there are now more than 30,000 retractions in our database.

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Paper mill sanctions; UT Austin suspends prof, repays grant funds; researchers in Mexico threatened with arrest

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Four papers by Athira CEO earn expressions of concern
• Alzheimer’s diagnosis paper retracted for failure to disclose conflicts of interest, other issues
• Study comparing hydroxychloroquine and antiviral drug for COVID-19 retracted
• “[T]hese shit comments”: Author of a nonsense paper responds on PubPeer
• “Fabulous document”, “very helpful guidance”: Sleuths react to recommendations for handling image integrity issues
• Authors of a case report on COVID-19 in a prisoner say they ‘are unsatisfied with the quality of [their] work’

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 160. And there are now more than 30,000 retractions in our database.

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Vaccine-myocarditis preprint withdrawn; are citations worth $100,000 each?; the lesson of ivermectin

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:

• Publisher investigating all of an author’s papers following reporting by Retraction Watch
• Highly criticized paper on dishonesty retracted
• Authors who don’t disclose conflicts of interest? “[W]e cannot force them to do so,” says editor
• Former Emory division director committed misconduct, says federal watchdog
• Highly cited paper marks 14th retraction for Chinese Academy of Sciences researcher

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 155. And there are now 30,000 retractions in our database.

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Continue reading Weekend reads: The ‘plagiarism hunter’; targeting academics over grant fraud; data manipulation at the World Bank

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:

• Introducing two sites that claim to sell authorships on scientific papers
• Authors object after Springer Nature journal cedes to publisher Frontiers’ demand for retraction
• University orders PhD supervisor to retract paper that plagiarized his student
• Obama intelligence official shortchanged grad student in 2015 book
• ‘Misleading and inaccurate information’: Rocky tenure for high mountain paper as complaints prompt retraction

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 154. And there are now 30,000 retractions in our database.

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Continue reading Weekend reads: A ‘hoax paper’ author resigns; Uyghur DNA papers retracted; a year without p values

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:

• Publisher retracting more than 30 articles from paper mills
• COVID-19 wastewater tracking paper ends up in the sewer
• Publisher offers cash for citations
• Pro-tip: Before submitting your manuscript, delete the plagiarism detection report text
• Former Tufts grad student settles lawsuit alleging retaliation for whistleblowing
• In which we ask: What exactly did peer review accomplish here?

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 154.

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Continue reading Weekend reads: A deep dive into a problematic study of ivermectin; how journals respond to allegations; prison and now scrutiny

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:

• Readers puzzle over marketing journal’s failures to retract
• Doing the right thing: Co-authors of researcher who covered up data fakery retract paper
• Journal retracts more articles for being “unethical, scientifically flawed, and based on racist ideas and agenda”
• Second time’s the charm: The author who requested a retraction twice
• Biotech’s data supporting Alzheimer’s trials under scrutiny
• Guest editor says journal will retract dozens of inappropriate papers after his email was hacked

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 151.

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Continue reading Weekend reads: It’s not all publish or perish?; plagiarism hunters; controls on ‘gain of function’ research weaken