Category: weekend reads

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Give or take a year or two: Case reveals publishers’ vastly different retraction times
• Concussion researcher McCrory up to 17 retractions
• Journal pulls paper by economist who failed to disclose data tinkering

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 48,000 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Editor under scrutiny resigns; bullshitting scientists; questionable practices in expanding disciplines

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• A study of C-section scars – in women who hadn’t undergone the surgery
• Cureus retracts paper for plagiarism following Retraction Watch inquiries 
• Publisher retracts more than a dozen papers at once for likely paper mill activity

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 48,000 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Medical residents’ publish or perish problem; Alzheimer’s and predatory journals; brain biopsies set off alarm bells

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Controversial rocket scientist in India threatens legal action after journals pull papers
• Send lawyers, Einstein and Maugham: Authors object to PLOS ONE retraction
• Exclusive: Psychology researcher loses PhD after allegedly using husband in study and making up data

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 48,000 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Superconductivity researcher’s lawsuit dismissed; no grounds for prosecuting Elisabeth Bik; a rector candidate who boosted his metrics

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Dean in Indonesia resigns following Retraction Watch report

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 48,000 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Deans out following Retraction Watch reporting; making sense of retractions; why one university is having grants withheld

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Publisher flags papers found by university to involve misconduct more than a year ago
• The dean who came to visit – and added dozens of authors without their knowledge
• Exclusive: Wiley journal editor under investigation for duplicate publications

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 48,000 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: A decade after the STAP scandal; more allegations about Francesca Gino; the disappearing journal

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Chief researcher at national Japanese institute has paper retracted for faking data
• Exclusive: ‘Bust Size and Hitchhiking’ author to earn four more expressions of concern
• Paper claiming vaping tops nicotine gum for smoking cessation retracted from JAMA journal
• High-profile ob-gyn accused of duplicating data threatens to sue critic
• Embattled researcher Didier Raoult earns more than 100 expressions of concern and another retraction
• Cureus reviewing paper alleged to plagiarize Lancet article

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 48,000 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 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):

Continue reading Weekend reads: ‘Objectionable conditions’ at psychiatry institute; impact factor obsession; Nobel winner acknowledges more errors

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Following mass resignation, obstetrics journals place editor’s notes on studies

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 48,000 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 new list of papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Clinical trial fraud leads to prison; journal editors resigning en masse; who should police scientific fraud?

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Do some IQ data need a ‘public health warning?’ A paper based on a controversial psychologist’s data is retracted
• Controversial pyramid paper retracted when authors turn out to have radiocarbon-dated nearby dirt
• Exclusive: PLOS ONE to correct 1,000 papers, add author proof step
• Paper cited by article at center of lawsuit for criticizing Splenda earns an expression of concern

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 — or our new list of 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):

Continue reading Weekend reads: More retractions at Columbia; ‘an epidemic of scientific fraud’; when articles cite retracted papers

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Misspelled cell lines take on new lives — and why that’s bad for the scientific literature
• Journal blacklists doctor in Pakistan ‘out of an abundance of caution’
• Up to one in seven submissions to hundreds of Wiley journals flagged by new paper mill tool
• Rejected paper pops up elsewhere after one journal suspected manipulation

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: A paper written by ChatGPT goes viral; the Gino misconduct investigation report; superconductivity scandal

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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