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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Research integrity during the COVID-19 pandemic: A book excerpt
• Guest post: A look behind the scenes of bulk retractions from Sage
• Controversial French researcher loses two papers for ethics approval issues
• Paper on homeopathy for ADHD retracted for ‘deficiencies’
• Exclusive: NYU cancer center director suspended
• Sage retracts more than 200 papers from journal for compromised peer review
• My journal was hijacked: an editor’s experience
• US VA scientist banned from agency research for faking data
• PLOS backs down from expression of concern after author’s lawsuit

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to over 375. There are more than 43,000 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Why one chemist hasn’t made tenure; retractions in neuroscience; ‘pay to publish trash’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• PLOS and scientist appear close to settling lawsuit over expression of concern
• Cancer researcher with nine retractions says he’ll take publisher to court
• Publisher looking into COVID vaccine paper with ‘serious flaws’
• History repeats itself: Diabetes researcher gets four expressions of concern in journal he once sued
• Lancet retracts two more papers by convicted surgeon Paolo Macchiarini

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to well over 350. There are more than 43,000 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: UK shadow chancellor accused of plagiarism; eLife editor fired; Elsevier editor resigns because publisher ignored likely paper mill activity

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• ‘Prompt and decisive’: Editor says obesity study will be retracted after critique
• Exclusive: Professor in France blames alleged ghostwriter for plagiarism
• Article defending private-equity involvement in autism services retracted
• Alcohol researcher faked data in animal studies, US watchdog says
• Professor who blamed plagiarism on ghostwriter to earn first retraction

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to well over 350. There are more than 43,000 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: A Nobelist earns an expression of concern; India’s fake universities; shaking things up in psychology

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• How thousands of invisible citations sneak into papers and make for fake metrics
• Study of music by Mozart includes tunes “not necessarily music composed by Mozart”
• Our two-year fight for the release of public records
• Exclusive: Author threatened to sue publisher over retraction, then sued to block release of emails

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to well over 350. There are more than 43,000 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: ‘Egregious misconduct’ by biotech collaborator; an IVF doctor with allegedly fake credentials; ChatGPT not the problem in publishing

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• How a canceled panel on sex plays into censorship by the right: A guest post
• One year later, bioinformatics journal with unclear leadership yet to retract plagiarized article
• Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction
• To guard against fraud, medical research should be a profession:  A book excerpt
• Authors file complaint with publisher as journal retracts vaping paper
• Signs of undeclared ChatGPT use in papers mounting

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to well over 350. There are more than 43,000 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: The strain on publishing; Gino defends herself; the rise of fake peer review retractions

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Yale professor’s book ‘systematically misrepresents’ sources, review claims
• Nature flags doubts over Google AI study, pulls commentary
• Anthropology groups cancel conference panel on why biological sex is “necessary” for research
• After resigning en masse, math journal editors launch new publication

We also added The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List.

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to well over 350. There are more than 43,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: ‘The band of debunkers’; a superconductor retraction request; ‘the banality of bad-faith science’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Swedish beauty study that sparked ‘storm of criticism’ is cleared
• Exclusive: Probe suggests new retraction awaiting embattled Korean heart doctor
• Nature pulls study that found climate fears were overblown
• Nature pulls study that found climate fears were overblown

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to well over 350. There are now nearly 43,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Who should pay for sleuthing?; the Gino retraction requests; university ‘halts projects over fraud investigation’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• The Retraction Watch Database becomes completely open – and RW becomes far more sustainable
• Overturning a dubious retraction proves difficult for education professor
• Turmoil at Sage journal as retractions mount

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to well over 350. There are now nearly 43,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Crossref acquires the Retraction Watch Database; Italy minister’s papers scrutinized; Carlo Croce goes to court yet again

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Eight papers retracted after author found to be fictional
• Former Stanford president retracts 1999 Cell paper
• Weill Cornell cancer researchers committed research misconduct, feds say
• Frontiers retracts nearly 40 papers linked to ‘authorship-for-sale’

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to well over 350. There are now well over 42,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which powers retraction alerts in Edifix, EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 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?

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Continue reading Weekend reads: ChatGPT in papers; a Russia-based paper mill; getting scooped becomes an opportunity

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Former Alabama chemistry prof faked data in grant applications: Federal watchdog
• ‘Unethical and misleading’: Researcher finds his name on editorial boards of journals he’s never heard of
• Researcher sues U.S. government following debarment, misconduct finding
• Stanford president retracts two Science papers following investigation
• Withdrawn AI-written preprint on millipedes resurfaces, causing alarm

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to well over 350. There are now 42,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in Edifix, EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 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?

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 journey through a paper mill; Stanford president’s retractions; developments in Gino case