Category: weekend reads

This week at Retraction Watch featured a look at the huge problem of misidentified cell lines, a check-in with a company that retracted a paper as it was about to go public, and Diederik Stapel’s 58th retraction. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: What do PhDs earn?; university refuses to release data; collaboration’s dark side

The week at Retraction Watch featured a new grant to our parent non-profit organization, a retraction from the NEJM, and our first-ever retraction. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Retraction reluctance; worthless papers (and stats); too many PhDs

The week at Retraction Watch featured a move by the Journal of Biological Chemistry that we’re applauding, a retraction by a high-profile nutrition researcher, and an announcement about a new partnership to create a retraction database. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Criminal charges for plagiarism; NFL scientific interference; the authorship explosion

The week at Retraction Watch featured a particularly misleading retraction notice, and a university stripping a graduate of her PhD for misconduct. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Papers de-emphasized for funding; reproducibility revolution; reining in fraud in China

This morning, our thoughts are with the people of Paris. The week at Retraction Watch featured the retraction of a paper claiming dramatically higher rates of sexual trauma among men in the military, and a look at whether gender plays a role in peer review. Also: We’re hiring. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: The end of journals?; Impact Factor for sale; fake peer reviews earn funding bans

This week’s Weekend Reads, which appears below, was preempted yesterday by the news that the Office of Research Integrity had issued a finding of misconduct in the long-running case of Anil Potti. The week also featured news about a child psychiatry trial halted for unexplained reasons, and saw the launch of our new weekly column at STAT, a new life sciences site from Boston Globe Media. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Elsevier mutiny; babies as co-authors; what to do after rejection

This week at Retraction Watch featured high-profile retractions from Nature and the BMJ. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Psychology stats errors abound; font choice dooms grant application

Lots of good reads elsewhere this week. As promised yesterday, here’s part 2: Continue reading Weekend reads, part 2: Pressure to publish limits innovation; Frontiers a predatory publisher?

The week at Retraction Watch featured a lot of movement on our leaderboard, with a new total for Diederik Stapel, and a new entry. It also featured a lot going on elsewhere, so here’s part I of Weekend Reads (we’ll have more tomorrow morning): Continue reading Weekend reads, part 1: Pirating paywalled papers; a sex scandal and fudged data at Stanford

This week at Retraction Watch featured nine more fake peer review retractions, this time from Elsevier, and an update to the retraction count for one-time record holder Joachim Boldt. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Angry meta-analysts; imposter cell lines; when things go wrong