Category: weekend reads

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Exclusive: Ohio State researcher kept six-figure job for more than a year after a misconduct finding
• Widely shared vitamin D-COVID-19 preprint removed from Lancet server
• ‘No malicious intent’: Authors retract week-old Science Advances paper based on embargoed data
• Publisher retracting five papers because of “clear evidence” that they were “computer generated”
• Third journal scammed by rogue editors
• ‘Conference organizers have ignored this:’ How common is plagiarism and duplication in abstracts?

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 85.

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 editorial board resigns over interference; what a manuscript rejection means; the scientific 1%

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:

• Eleven papers corrected after nutrition prof fails to disclose patent, company ties
• Leading evidence-based group blames pandemic for 9-month delay pulling flawed cancer review
• Editors decide not to retract microplastics article but “they feel that it is barely justified”
• 20 ways to spot the work of paper mills
• Why “good PhD students are worth gold!” A grad student finds an error

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 84.

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: “Hot-crazy matrix” paper; “comfort women” controversy; COVID-19 vaccine misinformation

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:

• On COVID-19 PCR testing paper, “the criteria for a retraction of the article have not been fulfilled”
• Engineering professor up to nine retractions for image problems
• Litigious OSU professor loses appeal in federal defamation case
• Okinawa researcher suspended for faking data denies committing misconduct
• Mathematician ranked as Clarivate “highly cited researcher” has third paper retracted
• Okinawa university suspends researcher for six months following findings of plagiarism and faked data
• Researcher to overtake Diederik Stapel on the Retraction Watch Leaderboard, with 61
• Journal pulls two studies that listed an author without his permission
• Springer Nature to retract chapter on sign language critics call “unbelievably insulting”

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 83.

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: A Holocaust studies misconduct finding; Nature investigating majorana paper; nepotistic journals

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:

• “I don’t think I slept for a day and a half:” Bad news for study about bad news
• Here comes the judge, ready to plagiarize your paper
• “The whole thing is yucky:” When you’re surprised to find yourself as an author on a paper
• ‘Immortal time bias’ fells JAMA journal asthma paper
• A tale of three journals: Paper retracted when associate editor submits to the wrong title
• Former Texas postdoc earns 10-year federal funding ban for faking authors and papers to boost metrics
• What is a figure about budgies — aka parakeets — doing in four different plant papers?

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 81.

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Women’s authorships bounce back?; scientists go to court; demoted for plagiarism

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:

• Exercise science grad student at Australian university dismissed after he admitted faking data, says supervisor
• ‘Striking’: Journal editor suspects paper mills behind rash of withdrawn manuscripts
• Publisher retracting 68 articles suspected of being paper mill products
• Why one biologist says it’s not too late to retract the “arsenic life” paper
• The mill and the loss: Journal up to 39 retractions from paper mill articles

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 76.

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: Scientist in China cleared of plagiarism and fraud charges; “what my retraction taught me;” researcher sued for >$1.5 million for unpaid legal bills in failed defamation cases

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:

• “The most horrific time of my career.” What do you do when you realize years of your published work is built on an error?
• “Confrontation is an important element of physics progress:” Paper on black holes retracted
• Springer Nature journal retracts BMI, honesty paper. The first author calls the move “deeply unfair.”
• Journal expresses concern over study of potential treatment for autism
• “There can be no justification for such studies”: Paper on artificial eyes for dogs earns expression of concern

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 75.

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Pollution of COVID-19 research; climate papers lead to reassignment; time to publish less?

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 becomes “victim of an organized rogue editor network”
• Researcher linked to author with 52 retractions loses a paper for duplication
• PLOS ONE retracts paper purporting to be about lung ultrasound for COVID-19 but that had suspicious overlap with pre-pandemic article
• JAMA journal retracts its first paper, on exercise and heart disease
• “This retraction is one of the fastest I ever experienced after reporting a paper to a journal editor.”
• Columbia grad student faked data in study of socioeconomics and life experiences, says retraction notice
• Holy cow: “The article as written contains misleading information and omits important details.”

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 74.

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: How COVID-19 has changed publications; peer review and women; is ‘manuscript recycling’ OK?

Welcome to the first Weekend Reads of 2021. 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:

• Medical writer loses COVID-19-cancer paper for plagiarism
• Psychology paper retracted after creators of tool allege “serious breach of copyright”
• Psychology journal retracts two articles for being “unethical, scientifically flawed, and based on racist ideas and agenda”
• List of retracted COVID-19 papers grows past 70
• A look back at retraction news in 2020 — and ahead to 2021

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 72.

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: The backstory of a Nature retraction; an author salutes her favorite review of 2020; vaping-COVID-19 link questioned

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 year-ed tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Publisher retracts 14 papers by doctor who ran afoul of U.S. FDA for marketing supplements
• Nature Communications retracts much-criticized paper on mentorship
• Texas bone researcher faked data in Nature paper, says federal watchdog, as university rescinds professorships
• After legal threats from Herbalife, Elsevier journal retracts — and then removes — a paper
• ‘I thought I had messed up my experiment’: How a grad student discovered an error that might affect hundreds of papers
• ‘Misconduct on a grand and terrible scale’: Dental scientist up to 26 retractions

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 40.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: $1.5 million payout after failure to disclose conflicts; systematic review retractions; entire class penalized for cheating

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:

• Legal researcher up to 23 retractions for false affiliations, plagiarism
• Unmeet the beetles: “A very disappointing story” as authors yank paper on new insect species
• The top retractions of 2020: Mostly, but not all, COVID-19
• Caught in the act’: Veterinary researcher caught fabricating gene data, resigns from university job
• Journal expresses concern — we think — about papers by Surgisphere founder
• U Maryland virus researcher up to 13 retractions
• ‘I dropped the ball’: Magic bullet falls short of target

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 40.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: Prof sues journal, school after demotion following retraction; researcher fired after questioning why school rejected grant; the authors who like ‘publish or perish’