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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- KPMG government report on research integrity makes up reference involving Retraction Watch founders
- Cancer paper earns expression of concern nearly two years after investigation report is revealed
- Editorial board members resign from obstetrics journal to protest handling of allegations
- Iran COVID-vaccine paper with ‘serious flaws’ retracted
- How a sleuth’s email turned a correction into a retraction
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 47,000 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?
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: Citation cartels; a history of scientific integrity; another Nobelist retracts a paper