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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Paper recommending vitamin D for COVID-19 retracted four years after expression of concern
• What a database of more than a thousand dismissive literature reviews can tell us
• Journal retracts redundant case study of same patient from different authors
• ‘All authors agree’ to retraction of Nature article linking microbial DNA to cancer
• Seventeen journals lose impact factors for suspected citation manipulation
• Authors – including a dean and a sleuth – correcting paper with duplicated image
• Finland group downgrades 60 journals

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 49,000 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: Huge cash bonuses for publishing in Nature; Alzheimer’s researcher charged with fraud; fines for buying authorship

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Wiley journal retracts two papers it said were fine following criticism years ago
• Journal hijackers still infiltrate Scopus despite its efforts
• Nature retracts highly cited 2002 paper that claimed adult stem cells could become any type of cell
• Elsevier reopens investigation into controversial hydroxychloroquine-COVID paper
• ‘Exhausting’: Author finds another’s name on an Elsevier book chapter she wrote
• Journal investigating follow-up study that didn’t mention patients had died 
• Superconductor researcher loses fifth paper

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 49,000 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 researcher explains how he publishes every three days; scientific bounty hunters; criminalizing scientific misconduct

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Two papers retracted for plagiarizing a 50-year-old thesis
• Editor and authors refuse to share data of paper containing alleged statistical errors
• How a widely used ranking system ended up with three fake journals in its top 10 philosophy list
• Brain tumor researchers lose second paper as UCSF investigates
• ‘Perplexed’ author’s identity forged on plagiarized paper in ‘probably fake’ journal
• Expression of concern coming for paper some used to link COVID-19 vaccines to deaths

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 49,000 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: ‘An epidemic of scientific fakery’; death threats for critics; Cleveland Clinic settles mismanagement allegations for $7.6 million

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• ‘A disturbing experience’: Postdoc fights to have work that plagiarized her thesis retracted
• A look at plagiarism at the Pontifical Gregorian University
• Veterinary journal retracts pet food company’s paper about copper in dog food
• MDPI backtracks on claim that a thesis can’t be plagiarized
• Climate paper retracted from Science over miscalculations
• Elsevier journal issues 73 expressions of concern for manipulated peer review

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 49,000 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: Major Alzheimer’s paper slated for retraction; research dog breeder pleads guilty; biomedical retractions quadruple

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• University of Sydney dean working to amend review papers that cited papermill articles
• University vice president for research contests retraction for image issues
• Caught by a reviewer: A plagiarizing deep learning paper lingers
• Pharmaceutical researcher faked data in two papers, says federal watchdog
• Indonesian university dean dismissed, barred from teaching, asked to apologize
• Neuroscience journal retracts eight articles for image distortion

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are nearly 49,000 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: Another vaccine-autism retraction; ‘Why We Commit Academic Fraud’; on a psilocybin-depression correction

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Journal taking ‘corrective actions’ after learning author used ChatGPT to update references
• A retraction milestone: 200 for one author
• ‘Lab shenanigans’: TikTok influencer faked data, feds say

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are nearly 49,000 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 Scientific Fraud is Suddenly Everywhere’; ‘misconduct, intimidation, alcohol abuse and theft’; ‘grimpact’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Publisher slaps 60 papers in chemistry journal with expressions of concern
• Professor, former dean earns nearly 100 expressions of concern for citation manipulation
• Nature earns ire over lack of code availability for Google DeepMind protein folding paper
• Norway university committee recommends probe into the country’s most productive researcher
• Lack of permits, ‘selective’ data halt research at Swedish prosthetics research center
• How the Karolinska protected Paolo Macchiarini — and whistleblowers paid the price

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: Rector in Spain faces more scrutiny; Wiley to shut down 19 more journals; chemistry journal folds after outcry

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Give or take a year or two: Case reveals publishers’ vastly different retraction times
• Concussion researcher McCrory up to 17 retractions
• Journal pulls paper by economist who failed to disclose data tinkering

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: Editor under scrutiny resigns; bullshitting scientists; questionable practices in expanding disciplines

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• A study of C-section scars – in women who hadn’t undergone the surgery
• Cureus retracts paper for plagiarism following Retraction Watch inquiries 
• Publisher retracts more than a dozen papers at once for likely paper mill activity

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: Medical residents’ publish or perish problem; Alzheimer’s and predatory journals; brain biopsies set off alarm bells

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Controversial rocket scientist in India threatens legal action after journals pull papers
• Send lawyers, Einstein and Maugham: Authors object to PLOS ONE retraction
• Exclusive: Psychology researcher loses PhD after allegedly using husband in study and making up data

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: Superconductivity researcher’s lawsuit dismissed; no grounds for prosecuting Elisabeth Bik; a rector candidate who boosted his metrics