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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Should Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment be retracted?
• Osaka misconduct investigation leads to four retractions, with more likely
• Editorial board resigns after journal cancels special issue on Palestine
• Food scientist impersonated as an editor and reviewer in Frontiers articles

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 57,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 300 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Frustration over unpaid peer review; NIH axes research grants; publishers sue Meta

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Five studies from ‘Bust Size and Hitchhiking’ author retracted
• ICYMI: Dean under investigation for plagiarism following Retraction Watch story: report
• Was nonsense ‘vegetative electron microscopy’ phrase a Farsi typo?
• Seven years after ‘noncompliance’ finding, whistleblowers push for retractions
• His manuscript was rejected. Then he saw it published by other authors
• Don’t tread on me: Snake paper retracted for ‘soft-stepping’ technique

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 57,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 300 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Former NIH director suddenly retires; more on patent mills; journal editors talk damage control

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• IQ paper gets expression of concern as misconduct fallout continues
• Exclusive: Extensive correction to Genentech PNAS article will get an update after RW inquiry
• A critique of our cofounders’ recent piece in The Atlantic
• Author forges document to claim USDA affiliation
• Exclusive: U.S. federal research integrity teams take hits with departures

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 57,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 300 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads:  Same data, opposite conclusions; ‘Death by ax’; ‘plastics in your brain’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Springer Nature retracted 2,923 papers last year
• When a sleuth gets hired by a publisher: A Q&A with Nick Wise
• Wiley journal retracts 26 papers for ‘compromised peer review.’
• Paper on conversion therapy retracted, authors planning to republish 

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 55,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 300 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: ‘The Discipline of Last Resort’; universities with the most retractions; ‘patent mills’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• As Springer Nature journal clears AI papers, one university’s retractions rise drastically
• Science is considering retracting ‘arsenic life’ paper
• Two papers coauthored by a dean retracted, with a third in question
• Science editor encourages addressing integrity questions publicly
• Announcing the Elisabeth Bik Science Integrity Fund
• Editors resign from sedimentology society journal amid ‘extraordinary and troubling times’
• Second paper by Nobel laureate Thomas Südhof retracted

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 55,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 300 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: ‘Why I retracted part of my PhD dissertation’; second NIH official departs; Bik fund

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Mass resignations hit psychotherapy journal after publisher replaced editors.
• Undisclosed conflicts, lightning-fast peer review: One Alzheimer’s journal’s role in a failed drug.
• ‘The fraud was not subtle’: Chemist blames students after ten papers retracted.
• Editors resign from Springer immunology journal to launch nonprofit title.
• Researcher removed from journal masthead, loses three more papers.

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 55,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 300 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Alzheimer’s researcher resigns; bad stats in biology; ethical reasoning in open science

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Journal updates retraction notice to include plagiarism following Retraction Watch report
• Anatomy of a retraction: When cleaning up the literature takes six years
• Former student was running a paper mill, says university
• Sage journal retracts another 400 papers
• How academic leaders should respond to shock and awe

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 55,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 300 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: ‘Invasion of the journal snatchers;’ our paper mill investigation; highly cited, highly retracted

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• More than three decades after misconduct ruling, researcher’s IQ test paper is retracted
• ‘Foolish mistake’: Guest editor loses three articles published in his own special issues
• Researcher alleges group stole thesis data presented at conference
• Thousands demand withdrawal of review article recommending exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome
• Paper retracted after author told journal study was ‘not actually performed’

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 450. There are more than 55,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 300 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: ‘The Temporal Crisis’; researcher sues university that fired him; ‘Devastating Legacy of Lies’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• ‘Still angry’: Chemist finds his name on a study he didn’t write
• Sage slaps more than 100 papers from one journal with expressions of concern
• Pair of management papers retracted for similarities to earlier work
• Who you calling ‘bignose’? Shark paper corrected after species mix-up

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 450. There are more than 50,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 300 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Retraction counts by country; ‘zombie facts;’ false allegations fell president

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Meet Retraction Watch’s two new journalists
• Elsevier denies AI use in response to evolution journal board resignations
• Biotech company agrees to pay $4 million to settle data falsification allegations
• Science paper by Toronto lab retracted
• The 14 universities with publication metrics researchers say are too good to be true

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 450. There are more than 50,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 300 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: ‘Lack of informed consent’ in DNA data; protecting the ‘prey’ of predatory journals; another ivermectin-COVID-19 retraction