Category: weekend reads

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Publisher flags papers found by university to involve misconduct more than a year ago
• The dean who came to visit – and added dozens of authors without their knowledge
• Exclusive: Wiley journal editor under investigation for duplicate publications

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 48,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 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: A decade after the STAP scandal; more allegations about Francesca Gino; the disappearing journal

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Chief researcher at national Japanese institute has paper retracted for faking data
• Exclusive: ‘Bust Size and Hitchhiking’ author to earn four more expressions of concern
• Paper claiming vaping tops nicotine gum for smoking cessation retracted from JAMA journal
• High-profile ob-gyn accused of duplicating data threatens to sue critic
• Embattled researcher Didier Raoult earns more than 100 expressions of concern and another retraction
• Cureus reviewing paper alleged to plagiarize Lancet article

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 48,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 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 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: ‘Objectionable conditions’ at psychiatry institute; impact factor obsession; Nobel winner acknowledges more errors

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Following mass resignation, obstetrics journals place editor’s notes on studies

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 48,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 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 new list of papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Clinical trial fraud leads to prison; journal editors resigning en masse; who should police scientific fraud?

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Do some IQ data need a ‘public health warning?’ A paper based on a controversial psychologist’s data is retracted
• Controversial pyramid paper retracted when authors turn out to have radiocarbon-dated nearby dirt
• Exclusive: PLOS ONE to correct 1,000 papers, add author proof step
• Paper cited by article at center of lawsuit for criticizing Splenda earns an expression of concern

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 47,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 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 new list of papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: More retractions at Columbia; ‘an epidemic of scientific fraud’; when articles cite retracted papers

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Misspelled cell lines take on new lives — and why that’s bad for the scientific literature
• Journal blacklists doctor in Pakistan ‘out of an abundance of caution’
• Up to one in seven submissions to hundreds of Wiley journals flagged by new paper mill tool
• Rejected paper pops up elsewhere after one journal suspected manipulation

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 47,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: A paper written by ChatGPT goes viral; the Gino misconduct investigation report; superconductivity scandal

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• KPMG government report on research integrity makes up reference involving Retraction Watch founders
• Cancer paper earns expression of concern nearly two years after investigation report is revealed
• Editorial board members resign from obstetrics journal to protest handling of allegations
• Iran COVID-vaccine paper with ‘serious flaws’ retracted
• How a sleuth’s email turned a correction into a retraction

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 47,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Citation cartels; a history of scientific integrity; another Nobelist retracts a paper

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• A cardiac surgeon’s tortuous efforts – including three lawsuits – to get the scientific record corrected
• Saudi university dean has 20 retractions in two years
• Exclusive: Embattled dean accused of plagiarism in NSF report
• Exclusive: Physician in India who coauthored review with US profs is running a paper mill
• Exclusive: Cardiologist in Pakistan continued publishing after journal shown evidence he was running a paper mill

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 47,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Peak retraction?; another mass editorial board resignation; an autism paper retraction

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Paper claiming ‘extensive’ harms of COVID-19 vaccines to be retracted
• How (not) to deal with missing data: An economist’s take on a controversial study
• Exclusive: Elsevier to retract paper by economist who failed to disclose data tinkering
• Science ‘Majorana’ particle paper earns another editor’s note as expert committee finds no misconduct
• Medical society takes millions from company that sued it for defamation – and lost

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 47,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Cash for error detection; problems with MDPI papers; retractions in abortion science

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Engineering dean’s journal serves as a supply chain for ‘bizarre’ articles
• Econ journal board quits en masse because Wiley ‘appeared to emphasize quantity over quality’
• Elsevier investigating papers after IEEE finds ‘self-plagiarism’
• Stanford prof who sued critics loses appeal against $500,000 in legal fees
• Highly cited scientist published dozens of papers after his death

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 47,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: That paper (yes, that one) is retracted; China reviewing 17,000 retractions; a Columbia surgeon and flawed data

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Indian paper mill disbands WhatsApp community following investigation
• ‘The sincerest form of flattery’: How a math professor discovered his work had been plagiarized
• Papers used by judge to justify abortion pill suspension retracted
• No data? No problem! Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper
• Could ‘write once/read many’ discourage cheating?

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 46,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 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?

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: An authorship dispute goes to court; peer review mills; falsely accused of using ChatGPT to write a paper