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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• Withdrawn AI-written preprint on millipedes resurfaces, causing alarm

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to well over 350.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

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Exclusive: World-renowned biologist accused of bullying student, stealing his work
• Exclusive: UCSF and VA found “pervasive” manipulation in lab of former center director
• Paper that helped form basis of pricy research tool retracted
• Ex-cops tangle with journals over strip clubs and sex crimes
• Paper that found ‘climate crisis’ to be ‘not evident yet’ retracted after re-review

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 350.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: Australia focuses on misconduct; Retraction Watch prevails in a lawsuit; scammers threaten data quality

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Lawyers can foreclose on cancer researcher’s house for unpaid defamation suit bills, says judge
• Who are you, Dragan Rodriguez? Fifteen studies have the same fake author, sleuth finds

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 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: When scholars sue; why university rankings reward bad science; AI making its way into publishing

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Author of paper on COVID-19 and jade amulets sues employer for ‘mental anguish,’ discrimination
• Colombia drug regulator halts clinical research at US-funded facility
• Wiley journal editors resign en masse, fired chief editor speaks
• Outcry over ‘terminal anorexia’ response letter prompts retraction

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 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: How common is scientific fraud?; the quest to get a paper retracted; ‘so, is this fraud or what?’

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Retraction Watch turned 13 on Thursday. The week also featured:

• Former postdoc who admitted to faking data pleads guilty to attempted forgery
• Happy 13th birthday, Retraction Watch: Another eventful year
• An editor resigned in protest. Now, Wiley is firing him four months earlier than he planned to leave.
• President of Japanese university resigns after findings of ‘self-plagiarism’
• Exclusive: How a dean went about correcting the scientific record even when at least one journal said he didn’t need to 

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to nearly 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: Death penalty for prof who killed whistleblower; psychiatry dept. shakeup after suicide in clinical trial; how scientific communication became highly profitable

If Retraction Watch were the child of Jewish parents – which happens to be the case – it would be celebrating its bar mitzvah this year. Yes, that’s right, mazel tovs are in order: Retraction Watch turns 13 today. 

And as the blog becomes some version of an adult, we have plenty to celebrate. This week, we published an op-ed in Scientific American. And here are highlights of the past 12 months:

• A new $250,000 grant from the WoodNext Foundation that allowed us to hire another editor, Fred Joelving, who is already breaking stories right and left.
• The additional bandwidth got us back to partnering with other outlets. Since January, we’ve published investigations and other stories with Undark, Science, STAT, and the Flatwater Free Press (with pickup by Nebraska Public Media).
• A study published in Research Policy “found that reporting retractions on RW significantly reduced post-retraction citations of non-swiftly retracted articles in biomedical sciences.” In other words, when Retraction Watch covers a retraction, the retracted paper is less likely to be cited.
• The Retraction Watch Database surpassed 40,000 retractions, which is three times as many as PubMed and multiples of other sources, and powers scholarship as well as retraction alerts in Edifix, EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. Clarivate has begun using it to vet its Highly Cited Researchers list. The Economist used data from the Retraction Watch Database to illustrate the amount of fraud in the biomedical literature.  
• We published an invited editorial in Anesthesiology, “How to Stop the Unknowing Citation of Retracted Papers.”

Continue reading Happy 13th birthday, Retraction Watch: Another eventful year

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Science rescinds expression of concern issued last month
• Exclusive: Public health journal says it will retract vaping paper for questions authors say were addressed in peer review
• Exclusive: City of Hope cancer researcher goes to court to fight misconduct finding
• Meet the author who has published more than 500 letters to the editor in a year

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to nearly 350. There are now 41,000 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: The black market for papers; the secret life of retractions; a ‘troublesome pattern’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Journal to retract papers that cost its impact factor and spot in leading index
• Econ study retracted after researchers find ‘undocumented alterations in the code’
• Journal asks scientist to step down from editorial board after sleuth’s comments linked him to paper mill
• Journal editors resign, strike in dispute with Wiley over ‘business model that maximises profit’
• Florida university fires criminology professor blemished by retractions
• Sage retracting three dozen articles for ‘compromised’ peer review

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are now 41,000 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: Stanford president to resign; untrustworthy clinical trials; ‘cruel and fake’ animal experiments

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• ‘Shocked and flabbergasted’: Journal updates duplicate article it had said was “sufficiently” different from original
• Editorial board member dropped from journal site after Retraction Watch-Undark report links him to paper mill
• The new retraction record holder is a German anesthesiologist, with 184
• University cuts anesthesiology researcher’s funding amid four retractions
• University finds former lecturer with two retractions plagiarized in seven publications

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are now 41,000 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: 17 retractions from a closed clinic; J&J sues researchers; Retraction Watch in Le Monde

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Former UPenn prof faked more than 50 figures, says government watchdog
• Scientist sues publisher to block expression of concern
• Editors of public health journal resign over differences with publisher
• Publisher blacklists authors after preprint cites made-up studies.

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are now 41,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in 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: NIH defunds Colombian monkey facility; Carlo Croce loses another court battle; ‘peer review is porous’