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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Cyberstalking pits Harvard professor against PubPeer
- Third retraction imminent for Harvard-affiliated sports research group
- Wiley to stop using “Hindawi” name amid $18 million revenue decline
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to over 375.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):
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