Category: weekend reads

The week at Retraction Watch featured an adventure in irony as a paper on plagiarism was retracted for…plagiarism, as well as another retraction for high-profile cancer research Robert Weinberg. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Publication pollution, irreproducible research crisis, and broken funding models

This week at Retraction Watch featured 43 papers retracted at once for fake peer reviews. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Monsanto demands retraction; fast-track peer review for fee scrutinized; fraud in China

This week at Retraction Watch featured retractions by a high-profile cancer researcher, and a loss in court for PubPeer. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Widespread p-hacking; sexism in science (again); retraction totals

This week at Retraction Watch featured the retraction of yet another spoof article, and the temporary shutdown of a journal. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Dissertations for sale, spurious impact factors, the roots of plagiarism

The week at Retraction Watch featured a number of legal cases by scientists trying to suppress criticism about their work. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Reviewer comments unmasked, the problem with top journal editors, originality an illusion?

This week at Retraction Watch featured a change of heart by a journal, and a look at Nature’s addition of double-blind peer review. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: P values banned, climate skeptic fails to disclose corporate funding, editors behaving badly

The week at Retraction Watch featured Matlab miscoding and a look at how often a retracted paper was cited. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Why some scientists lie, the state of academic integrity in Iran, Nature goes double-blind

This week at Retraction Watch, an explosives paper burned up, and we found that we’re cited in a $8 million lawsuit. Here’s what’s happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Tortured reviewers, why failure is good, journals without editors?

This week at Retraction Watch featured the debut of our new editor, and a unicorn. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Where to submit your next paper, NIH proposes “emeritus” award, research dollars wasted

This week at Retraction Watch featured polar opposites: Two new entries in our “doing the right thing” category, and one in our plagiarism euphemism parade. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Savage peer reviews, cosmology claim bites dust, $50 million diet pill hoax