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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Police investigating after Polish journal accuses authors of ‘crime of plagiarism’
- Judge orders OSU cancer researcher to pay $1 million to lawyers from failed libel suit
- Japanese university asks surgeon to retract eight ‘fraudulent’ papers
- Russian publishing watchdog decries ‘retraction misuse’ following ban on ‘LGBT propaganda’
- Was a paper from Taiwan retracted because of a geopolitical dispute?
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 285. 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?
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: ChatGPT fools scientists; did COVID-19 trials cut corners?; do scientific societies need journals?