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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- A paper on vaccines in Nigeria retracted because its author list omitted key contributors
- A French university rescinding a PhD for misconduct
- Ten retractions for an itinerant legal scholar who faked his affiliation
- Two more journals pushing back against Impact Factor suppression
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 25.
Here’s what was happening elsewhere:
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