The economist behind a controversial study showing attractive female students got lower grades after classes moved online during the pandemic has been acquitted of research misconduct, according to a report from his former institution. But the researcher, Adrian Mehic, did not get off without reproof: Even if the work kept to the letter of the … Continue reading Swedish beauty study that sparked ‘storm of criticism’ is cleared
Would you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to well over 350.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. … Continue reading Weekend reads: Crossref acquires the Retraction Watch Database; Italy minister’s papers scrutinized; Carlo Croce goes to court yet again
Would you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to well over 350.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 … Continue reading Weekend reads: ChatGPT in papers; a Russia-based paper mill; getting scooped becomes an opportunity
The publisher Frontiers has retracted nearly 40 papers across multiple journals linked to “the unethical practice of buying or selling authorship on research papers,” according to a press release posted to a company website Monday. The release also states Frontiers is adopting new policies to prevent the sale of authorships on papers it publishes. The … Continue reading Frontiers retracts nearly 40 papers linked to ‘authorship-for-sale’
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the former president of Stanford University who resigned following scrutiny of his published papers and an institutional research misconduct investigation, has retracted a third paper, this one from Cell. Last week, Tessier-Lavigne retracted two articles from Science that had been published in 2001. The Cell paper, A Ligand-Gated Association between Cytoplasmic Domains of … Continue reading Former Stanford president retracts 1999 Cell paper
Would you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? The week at Retraction Watch featured: 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 … Continue reading Weekend reads: A journey through a paper mill; Stanford president’s retractions; developments in Gino case
A preprint about millipedes that was written using OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT is back online after being withdrawn for including made-up references, Retraction Watch has learned. The paper, fake references and all, is also under review by a journal specializing in tropical insects. “This undermines trust in the scientific literature,” said Henrik Enghoff, a millipede researcher … Continue reading Withdrawn AI-written preprint on millipedes resurfaces, causing alarm
Would you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? The week at Retraction Watch featured: 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 … Continue reading Weekend reads: Australia focuses on misconduct; Retraction Watch prevails in a lawsuit; scammers threaten data quality
An article published last January in a physics journal attracted attention for its conclusion that–contrary to mainstream climate science–extreme weather events have not become more intense or more frequent as the temperature of the earth’s surface has increased. Now, the journal’s editors have retracted the article after a post-publication review found “that the conclusions of … Continue reading Paper that found ‘climate crisis’ to be ‘not evident yet’ retracted after re-review
Two institutional investigations that concluded in 2016 and 2019 found scientific misconduct in multiple publications from the lab of a leading urologist at the University of California, San Francisco, Retraction Watch has learned. The investigations could not determine who had manipulated the published images of experimental data, but the 2019 report concluded that Rajvir Dahiya, … Continue reading Exclusive: UCSF and VA found “pervasive” manipulation in lab of former center director