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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Papers in Scientific Reports – and their expressions of concern – raise questions
- 250th COVID-19 retraction is for faked ethics approval
- Papers in Croce case with “blatantly obvious” problems still aren’t retracted after misconduct investigation: sleuth
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 250. There are more than 34,000 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: Harvard sued over retracted paper; ‘retraction with honor’; critiquing our fake peer review coverage