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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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400.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?
Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):
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