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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- BMJ retracts article about effect of UK sugar tax after authors find error
- ‘A bit of a surprise’: Transportation officials pushed to retract archaeology article on work they funded
- Journal retracts 31 papers, bans authors and reviewers after losing its impact factor
- Copy and euphemize: When ‘an honor mistake’ means plagiarism
- ‘Trump’ vs. ‘Indiana Jones’: Paper reviving bitter quarrel over dino fossil pulled for murky reasons
- ‘I felt like a fraud’: A biologist goes public about a retraction
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to over 375. There are more than 45,000 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?
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: A new retraction record; corrections by Harvard president; when patents cite retracted papers