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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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to well over 350.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?
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 Nobelist earns an expression of concern; India’s fake universities; shaking things up in psychology