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Weekend reads: A museum of scientific misconduct?; authorship misconduct; uproar over renamed phyla

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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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 206.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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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:

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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 205.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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Weekend reads: Academania; redaction bias; a Harvard star falls; top retractions of 2021

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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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Weekend reads: ‘Fraudulent and faulty research;’ a $275K settlement — but resignation — for a professor; ‘COVID-19, ivermectin, and beyond’

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

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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Weekend reads: Chair leaves post during investigation of double-dipping allegations; geoscientist fined; prof claims another’s papers are hers

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Our co-founder Ivan Oransky presented oral evidence to the UK Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday. (His panel begins at time stamp 11:15. Coverage here.)
AHA “regrets any confusion” and is reviewing meeting policies after outcry over Covid-19 vaccine abstract
Engineering researcher who suddenly left postdoc has ninth paper retracted
Authors retract, resubmit “very poorly conducted” meta-analysis of COVID-19 treatment
Abstract linking COVID-19 vaccines to heart trouble risk earns expression of concern
Journal retracts three papers — including two on COVID-19 — because ‘trainee editor’ committed misconduct
Exclusive: Shell employee confesses to graduate student misdeeds

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 199. 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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Weekend reads: Nepotism in journals; the lessons of the ‘lab leak’ theory; four decades of research misconduct

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Nanotech paper retracted for duplicated images
Group’s second paper on potential treatments for COVID-19 is retracted
University of Glasgow ‘in discussions to retract’ seven papers, confirming Retraction Watch reporting
Highly cited cancer immunologist “seriously breached” research conduct code: Australia institute
Journal mulls expression of concern for Cassava Sciences paper
Author who squats on domains to fake affiliations and added Wolf Blitzer as a co-author up to a dozen retractions

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 192. 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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Weekend reads: An error in a PLOS journal leads to angry calls to Fauci; Jonathan Pruitt placed on leave; Cassava Sciences under SEC investigation

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Publisher retracts nearly 80 articles over three days
PNAS retracts paper that contributed to lung cancer trial
‘I have zero complaints about the process’: Post-publication analysis earns perception paper a flag
Co-author of paper claiming COVID-19 vaccines linked to miscarriage says he’s retracting it
Elsevier makes “sand, sun, sea and sex with strangers” paper disappear following criticism. And “Sand, sun, sea and sex with strangers” paper did not need human subjects research protection approval, says author
Stanford prof fights efforts to make him pay at least $75,000 in legal fees after dropping defamation suit

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 190. 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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Weekend reads, double edition: Scamming journals to publish gibberish; a whole issue with nothing but retractions; ‘the unbearable lightness of scientometric indices’

Welcome to another edition of Weekend Reads. Because our site was down for several days starting last Saturday morning, there was no Weekend Reads last week, and this is a double edition.

The last two weeks at Retraction Watch featured:

IEEE retracts plagiarized paper after Retraction Watch inquiries
Exclusive: University of Glasgow seeking retraction of multiple papers after findings of image manipulation
Behavioral ecologist Jonathan Pruitt’s PhD dissertation withdrawn
Science journal retracts paper after university investigation finds ‘carelessness and lack of attention to detail’
‘Clear evidence of theft’ brings down meningitis paper with dodgy images
Bad MATH+? Covid treatment paper by Pierre Kory retracted for flawed results
Anatomy journal retracts 13 papers
Springer Nature geosciences journal retracts 44 articles filled with gibberish
Astronomer apologizes, withdraws preprint slated for PNAS about impact in the field after criticism
Ivermectin-COVID-19 study retracted; authors blame file mixup
Paper on how trans youth come of age is retracted following ethics board investigation
HHS takes three and a half years to tell us “there are no records responsive to your request”…for a letter we know exists

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

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):

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