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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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400.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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400.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

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Did Flint water crisis set kids back in school? Paper saying so is ‘severely flawed,’ say critics
• Exclusive: Kavli prize winner threatens to sue critic for defamation
• Scopus is broken – just look at its literature category
• Supplement maker sues critic for defamation, spurring removal of accepted abstract
• ‘Mistakes were made’: Paper by department chair earns expression of concern as more questioned

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: The world’s most cited cat; ‘Is peer review failing its peer review?’; Oxford prof accused of stealing research

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• The wolf in Scopus’ clothing: Another hijacked journal has indexed nearly 900 articles
• University president faces allegations of duplication, institution says no misconduct
• Author blames retraction on ‘Chinese censorship’
• ‘Rare’ criminal charges for data manipulation in Cassava case send a ‘powerful message’: lawyers
• Journal retracts letter to the editor about predatory journals for ‘legal concerns’

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: ‘The surprising history of abstracts’; is peer review broken?; bee waggle dance data gets the wrong kind of buzz

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• ‘We authors paid a heavy price’: Journal retracts all 23 articles in special issue
• Food science journal retracts 10 papers for compromised peer review
• ‘A threat to the integrity of scientific publishing’: How often are retracted papers marked that way?
• Elsevier withdraws plagiarized paper after original author calls journal out on LinkedIn
• How you can help improve the visibility of retractions: Introducing NISO’s Recommended Practice for Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern (CREC)

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 ‘star botanist’ has a retraction; the ‘bizarro world of law reviews’; AI and fake papers

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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