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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- A cardiac surgeon’s tortuous efforts – including three lawsuits – to get the scientific record corrected
- Saudi university dean has 20 retractions in two years
- Exclusive: Embattled dean accused of plagiarism in NSF report
- Exclusive: Physician in India who coauthored review with US profs is running a paper mill
- Exclusive: Cardiologist in Pakistan continued publishing after journal shown evidence he was running a paper mill
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400.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: Peak retraction?; another mass editorial board resignation; an autism paper retraction