Category: weekend reads

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Former Yale prof faked data, says Federal watchdog
• Journal hasn’t retracted ‘Super Size Me’ paper six months after authors’ request
• Author denies Chinese censorship prompted COVID-19 retraction
• ‘Misleading’ and ‘false’ portrayal of racism-related experiences leads to retraction

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are more than 39,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. 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: Plagiarism allegations swirl around superconductor scientist; the ice cream studies no one wants to talk about; when fraud doesn’t pay

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• “Unapproved euthanasia” of rats in neuroscience study leads to retraction
• High-profile paper that used AI to identify suicide risk from brain scans retracted for flawed methods
• Wiley and Hindawi to retract 1,200 more papers for compromised peer review
• Five years after saying it won’t retract Macchiarini paper, journal does so
• A high-quality cloned journal has duped hundreds of scholars, and has no reason to stop
• ‘Sad but necessary’: Ant researchers pull fossil paper over errant claim

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are more than 39,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. 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: Drug company loses defamation suit against journal; Canada a whistleblower wasteland?; UT-Austin can revoke degrees after all

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Journal pulls papers by embattled scientist at national research center in France
• One small error for a physicist, one giant blunder for planetary science
• Exclusive: Committee recommended pulling several papers by former Cornell med school dean
• Norway demotes Hindawi journal after claims one published a stolen paper
• “Bust Size and Hitchhiking” author earns five expressions of concern
• Exclusive: Australia space scientist made up data, probe finds

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are more than 39,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. 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: Scientist suspended for 13 years; a fraud buster; editor home bias?

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• In unusual move, publishers remove authors victimized by forger
• Paper co-authored by controversial Australian journalist earns expression of concern
• Nearly 20 Hindawi journals delisted from leading index amid concerns of papermill activity
• A journal editor once told us authors were free to publish ‘bullshit and fiction.’ Apparently his publisher disagrees.

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are more than 39,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. 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: A bizarre shark story ends in a retraction; one scientist’s decades-long fight; the math wars

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• After a sleuth reveals a paper with authorships advertised for sale, it’s retracted
• Here’s one article that won’t be making any top 50 papers list
• Gov’t committee in Pakistan lets plagiarizing vice-chancellor off the hook
• When it takes two university-federal agency letters – and five years – for a journal to retract a paper
• When journals don’t meet their ethical guidelines, will anyone hold them accountable?

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are more than 39,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. 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: ‘Strife at eLife’; fraudulent science at Monsanto; cats and chatbots writing papers

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Wiley paused Hindawi special issues amid quality problems, lost $9 million in revenue
• Article retracted when authors don’t pay publication fee
• Ob-gyn loses PhD after committee finds he made up research
• Journals dismiss claims that Harvard researcher’s work on race is ‘pseudoscience’

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are more than 39,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. 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: ‘Is economics self-correcting?’; ’20 years of ‘terror’ in the laboratory’; a look at self-citations

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Legal scholar who claimed false affiliations moves on to creating dubious legal yearbooks
• Chemist who cooked data claims PhD years after it was revoked
• Two years ago, an author asked a journal to withdraw a paper. It still hasn’t.

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are nearly 39,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. 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: A whistleblower speaks; an ecologist’s suspension is questioned; ‘massive plagiarism’ allegations

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• How many times can a journal be hijacked?
• Journal investigating Sodom comet paper for data problems

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are nearly 39,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. 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: ‘A worrying amount of fraud in medical research;’ a society backpedals on sanctions; a plagiarism case becomes even more bizarre

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Paper with authorship posted for sale retracted over a year after Retraction Watch report
• Five years on, convicted transplant surgeon earns expressions of concern from Lancet
• Harvard surgeon has five papers pulled following internal investigation
• Exclusive: Prof stole former student’s identity to edit two journal special issues

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are more than 38,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. 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: More allegations about Stanford president; a plagiarizing rabbi; costly spreadsheet mistakes

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• US federal research watchdog gets new permanent director
• ‘I was fired up’: Psychiatrist effort prompts retraction of antidepressant treatment paper
• The Whack-a-Mole problem: Hijacked journal still being indexed in Scopus even after discovery
• How fishy email addresses tipped off a sleuth to a paper mill

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 290. There are more than 38,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. 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: Elsevier journal under fire; a researcher’s PhD is revoked; peer review vs. ‘attention-economy hellscapes’