Category: weekend reads

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• How a canceled panel on sex plays into censorship by the right: A guest post
• One year later, bioinformatics journal with unclear leadership yet to retract plagiarized article
• Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction
• To guard against fraud, medical research should be a profession:  A book excerpt
• Authors file complaint with publisher as journal retracts vaping paper
• Signs of undeclared ChatGPT use in papers mounting

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to well over 350. There are more than 43,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains well over 200 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? Or The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: The strain on publishing; Gino defends herself; the rise of fake peer review retractions

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Yale professor’s book ‘systematically misrepresents’ sources, review claims
• Nature flags doubts over Google AI study, pulls commentary
• Anthropology groups cancel conference panel on why biological sex is “necessary” for research
• After resigning en masse, math journal editors launch new publication

We also added The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List.

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to well over 350. There are more than 43,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains over 200 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: ‘The band of debunkers’; a superconductor retraction request; ‘the banality of bad-faith science’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Swedish beauty study that sparked ‘storm of criticism’ is cleared
• Exclusive: Probe suggests new retraction awaiting embattled Korean heart doctor
• Nature pulls study that found climate fears were overblown
• Nature pulls study that found climate fears were overblown

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to well over 350. There are now nearly 43,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 200 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Who should pay for sleuthing?; the Gino retraction requests; university ‘halts projects over fraud investigation’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• The Retraction Watch Database becomes completely open – and RW becomes far more sustainable
• Overturning a dubious retraction proves difficult for education professor
• Turmoil at Sage journal as retractions mount

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to well over 350. There are now nearly 43,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 200 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Crossref acquires the Retraction Watch Database; Italy minister’s papers scrutinized; Carlo Croce goes to court yet again

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Eight papers retracted after author found to be fictional
• Former Stanford president retracts 1999 Cell paper
• Weill Cornell cancer researchers committed research misconduct, feds say
• Frontiers retracts nearly 40 papers linked to ‘authorship-for-sale’

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to well over 350. There are now well over 42,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which powers retraction alerts in Edifix, EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 200 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: ChatGPT in papers; a Russia-based paper mill; getting scooped becomes an opportunity

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Former Alabama chemistry prof faked data in grant applications: Federal watchdog
• ‘Unethical and misleading’: Researcher finds his name on editorial boards of journals he’s never heard of
• Researcher sues U.S. government following debarment, misconduct finding
• Stanford president retracts two Science papers following investigation
• Withdrawn AI-written preprint on millipedes resurfaces, causing alarm

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to well over 350. There are now 42,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in Edifix, EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 200 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: A journey through a paper mill; Stanford president’s retractions; developments in Gino case

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Exclusive: World-renowned biologist accused of bullying student, stealing his work
• Exclusive: UCSF and VA found “pervasive” manipulation in lab of former center director
• Paper that helped form basis of pricy research tool retracted
• Ex-cops tangle with journals over strip clubs and sex crimes
• Paper that found ‘climate crisis’ to be ‘not evident yet’ retracted after re-review

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 350. There are now 42,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in Edifix, EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 200 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Australia focuses on misconduct; Retraction Watch prevails in a lawsuit; scammers threaten data quality

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Lawyers can foreclose on cancer researcher’s house for unpaid defamation suit bills, says judge
• Who are you, Dragan Rodriguez? Fifteen studies have the same fake author, sleuth finds

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 350. There are now 42,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in Edifix, EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 200 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: When scholars sue; why university rankings reward bad science; AI making its way into publishing

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Author of paper on COVID-19 and jade amulets sues employer for ‘mental anguish,’ discrimination
• Colombia drug regulator halts clinical research at US-funded facility
• Wiley journal editors resign en masse, fired chief editor speaks
• Outcry over ‘terminal anorexia’ response letter prompts retraction

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 350. There are now 42,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in Edifix, EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 200 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: How common is scientific fraud?; the quest to get a paper retracted; ‘so, is this fraud or what?’

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Retraction Watch turned 13 on Thursday. The week also featured:

• Former postdoc who admitted to faking data pleads guilty to attempted forgery
• Happy 13th birthday, Retraction Watch: Another eventful year
• An editor resigned in protest. Now, Wiley is firing him four months earlier than he planned to leave.
• President of Japanese university resigns after findings of ‘self-plagiarism’
• Exclusive: How a dean went about correcting the scientific record even when at least one journal said he didn’t need to 

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to nearly 350. There are now 42,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in Edifix, EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 200 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?

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: Death penalty for prof who killed whistleblower; psychiatry dept. shakeup after suicide in clinical trial; how scientific communication became highly profitable