Category: weekend reads

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• 1 in 7 scientific papers is fake, suggests study that author calls ‘wildly nonsystematic’
• Publisher adds temporary online notifications to articles “under investigation”
• Homeopathy for cancer paper extensively corrected after watchdog agency requested retraction

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. 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 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: Top NIH neuroscientist out amid suspicion; the issue with special issues; an ingredient derailed experiments

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Exclusive: One university’s three-year battle to retract papers with fake data
• First paper retracted in string of studies using the wrong medication name
• Exclusive: Providence VA hires scientist previous employer found had harassed mentees
• Exclusive: Editorial board member quits over journal’s handling of plagiarized paper
• Penn State barred embattled professor from doing research

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. 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 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: Harm reduction for peer review; finding reviewers; fake journals

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Pakistan university’s pharmacy department chair notches two retractions
• Former Harvard cancer researcher plagiarized data, federal watchdog says
• Penn State prof earns second retraction, faces third following university probe
• ‘Stealth corrections’: when journals quietly fix papers
• Nobel prize-winner tallies two more retractions, bringing total to 13

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. 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 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: Lawsuits filed and dismissed; ‘the rise of the science sleuths;’ research assessment culture

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Journal to retract two articles more than six months after VA said they had fake images
• Exclusive: Editor resigns after he says publisher blocked criticism of decision to retract paper on gender dysphoria
• Faked data prompts retraction of Nature journal study claiming creation of a new form of carbon
• ‘The PubPeer conundrum:’ One view of how universities can grapple with a ‘waterfall of data integrity concerns’
• Swiss medical association accused of forcing publishing subsidiary into insolvency

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. 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 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 plethora of misdeeds; big slowdown at several publishers; hydroxychloroquine paper retraction draws scrutiny

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• A journal editor said he’d retract a paper for plagiarism. A year later, it hasn’t happened.
• Exclusive: Thousands of papers misidentify microscopes, in possible sign of misconduct
• First-time scientific sleuths prompt nine retractions for neurosurgery group
• Researcher whose work was plagiarized haunted by impostor emails

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. 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 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: When retracted work is cited; another retraction for a Nobelist; should scientific fraud be illegal?

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Faked heart papers retracted following Ohio State investigation
• “Deceit, delusion, and a classic medical fraud”: An excerpt from a new book about a cancer treatment hoax
• ‘Coding’ errors prompt retraction of paper on long COVID in kids
• Exclusive: Biochemistry journal retracts 25 papers for ‘systematic manipulation’ of peer review
• Sleuths spur cleanup at journal with nearly 140 retractions and counting
• Journal retracts article for plagiarized images after trying to gag researcher who complained
• Exclusive: Publisher retracts more than 450 papers from journal it acquired last year

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. 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 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: Why scientist rankings should be ignored; misconduct claims in court; mining company demands retraction

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• What’s in a picture? Two decades of image manipulation awareness and action
• Former Maryland dept. chair with $19 million in grants faked data in 13 papers, feds say
• Exclusive: Publisher to retract article for excessively citing one researcher after Retraction Watch inquiry
• Authors retract quantum physics paper from Science after finding mistakes
• A scientist peer-reviewed an article that plagiarized his work. Then he saw it published elsewhere.

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. 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 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: MDMA papers retracted; COVID-19 vaccine paper retracted for the second time; who gets cited more?

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Journal republishes chiropractic paper it had retracted after legal threats
• PNAS corrects article by Kavli prize winner who threatened to sue critic
• Paper claiming to discover new pain syndrome retracted 
• ‘No animosity between us’: Lungless frog finding retracted after 16 years
• ‘Violated’: Engineering professor found her name on four papers she didn’t write

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. 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 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: Publish or perish, the card game; revisiting fraud in anesthesiology; the Hindawi mass retraction timeline

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Science and the significant trend towards spin and fairytales
• Cancer paper retracted 11 years after reported plagiarism
• Journal retracts paper on chiropractic product after distributor complains
• Happy 14th birthday, Retraction Watch – and what a year it was

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. 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 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: Happy birthday, Retraction Watch!; a mysterious conference; extreme publishing; research parasites revisited

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Giant rat penis redux: AI-generated diagram, errors lead to retraction
• Elsevier investigating geology journal after allegations of pal review
• Exclusive: Prof plagiarized postdoc’s work in now-retracted paper, university found
• ‘A proper editor would be horrified’: Why did a pediatric journal publish articles on the elderly?
• Authors up past 60 retractions amid ongoing investigation

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. 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 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: Attending a predatory conference; zombie theories; difficult authors