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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- That paper with the ‘T’ error bars was just retracted
- Retraction Watch grows again, thanks to a $250,000 grant from the WoodNext Foundation
- The top 10 retraction stories of 2022
- Contamination leads to swift retraction for Science paper on the origins of Omicron in Africa
- Contempt judgment in penile implant spat leads to retraction
- Article on sexual orientation and psych disorders retracted – without the author’s knowledge, he says
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 280. There are more than 37,000 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?
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: UCSF apologizes for prison research; top judge in Mexico accused of plagiarism; peer review under scrutiny