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+ A look back at 2024 at Retraction Watch, and forward to 2025—If 2024 felt like a whirlwind, you’re not alone. It was another busy one here at Retraction Watch, too. Some numbers to tell that story: 2...

+ Finland Publication Forum will downgrade hundreds of Frontiers and MDPI journals—A committee of scholars in Finland has decided to downgrade 271 journals from Frontiers and MDPI in their quality rating system, in a move that may di...

+ Journals investigating dozens of papers by leading Canadian urologists—Martin Gleave A high-profile Canadian urologist received an editorial expression of concern for one of his papers this month, after anonymous co...

+ Weekend reads: Shoddy commentaries flood journals; key hydroxychloroquine paper retracted; a researcher confesses—D ear RW readers,  can you spare $25 ? The week at Retraction Watch featured: EcoHealth Alliance retracts and replaces paper on potentia...

+ EcoHealth Alliance retracts and replaces paper on potential origin of COVID-19 in bats—The authors of an influential but controversial 2020 paper on the activity of bat coronaviruses in China which proposed the animals as a “likely origi...

+ Journal won’t retract paper that involved human organ transplants in China—The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation ( JHLT ) has decided against retracting a November 2024 paper that  violated the ethics policy of ...

+ Journal that published viral study on black plastic removed from major index—Chemosphere , the Elsevier title which in September published an article on “unexpected exposure to toxic flame retardants in household items” such as...

+ Researcher linked to paper mill activity mysteriously reappeared on list of journal’s editorial board—Masoud Afrand An engineer accused of being involved in paper mill activities mysteriously reappeared on a list of editorial board members at Spr...

+ Weekend reads: ‘Race science’ under review; researcher blames critiques on anti-LGBTQ discrimination; the politics of the politics of smell—D ear RW readers,  can you spare $25 ? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Former Harvard researcher, now at Moderna, loses pape...

+ Exclusive: Researcher who received settlement to leave University of Iowa won’t be starting new job—Kaikobad Irani A cardiology researcher who left the University of Iowa with a six-figure settlement earlier this year won’t be starting the ne...

+ Bribery offers from China rattle journal editors. Are they being scammed?—Richard Addante On November 12, Richard Addante, an associate editor at the journal Frontiers in Psychology , received an alarming email from...

+ 19 months and counting: Former Hindawi journal still hasn’t marked paper—A journal formerly published by Hindawi has yet to publish any sort of notice on a paper sleuths reported for containing duplicated images 1.5 years a...

+ Dean in Bulgaria accused of plagiarism—Milen Zamfirov Earlier this year, Milen Zamfirov , dean of the faculty of educational sciences at Sofia University in Bulgaria, was named an ex...

+ Former Harvard researcher, now at Moderna, loses paper following postdoc’s report—Mihaela Gadjeva PLOS Pathogens has retracted a paper by a former group at Harvard following a postdoc’s allegations the work contained manipul...

+ Weekend reads: A misconduct advent calendar; false affiliation scam ends; RW in Canada’s Parliament—Dear RW readers, can you spare $25 ? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Crossref suspends company’s membership after Retraction Wat...

+ Science places expressions of concern on two articles as Toronto’s Sinai Health investigates—Daniel Durocher Science has issued expressions of concern for two articles from the lab of Daniel Durocher , a professor of molecular genetic...

+ Wiley medical journal retracts dozens of papers for manipulated peer review, with more to come—International Wound Journal , a Wiley title, has retracted 27 papers since June with notices mentioning “manipulated” or “compromised” peer review.  ...

+ Crossref suspends company’s membership after Retraction Watch report—Crossref, a nonprofit focused on metadata of scholarly publications, has suspended the membership of a company linked to websites which copied the app...

+ Weekend reads: Cassava’s Alzheimer’s drug fails; new journal hijacking scam; Hong Kong academic jailed—Giving Tuesday is coming up. Would you  consider a donation to support Weekend Reads,  and our daily work ? The week at Retraction Watch feat...

+ Cancer researcher admitted faking data—A former researcher at Nemours Children’s Health in Wilmington, Del., admitted to falsifying and incorrectly reporting data in at least two published ...

+ Company linked to cloned journals of major publishers denies cloning journals of major publishers—After we reported on a new scam to publish papers on webpages remarkably similar to those of Elsevier, Springer, the American Medical Association an...

+ Exclusive: New hijacking scam targets Elsevier, Springer Nature, and other major publishers—Until recently, journal hijackers do not appear to have targeted titles from big publishers, in part because their well-known website designs made s...

+ Smithsonian Magazine pulls article for ‘errors’ after criticism of linked map of Israel—via Smithsonian Magazine Smithsonian Magazine has retracted a two-year-old article about an interactive online map describing indigenous lands...

+ Weekend reads: When Dr. Oz appeared in Retraction Watch in 2014; Didier Raoult in the news again; superconductivity researcher out—W ould you  consider a donation to support Weekend Reads,  and our daily work ? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Wiley corrects...

+ Mega journal Cureus kicks out organizations critics called paper mills—The embattled mega journal Cureus has closed six of its so-called “academic channels,” which it bills as low-cost publication platforms that “ will ...

+ ‘Relieved’: BMJ retracts and replaces article on unexpected weight loss as a sign of cancer—Brian Nicholson The British Medical Journal has retracted an article examining when unexpected weight loss could be a warning sign of cancer a...

+ Cancer specialist faked data in at least ten papers, VA and UCLA find—Alan Lichtenstein A multiple myeloma specialist “recklessly“ falsified data in at least 10 published articles, according to a joint investigatio...

+ Wiley corrects retraction notices for ‘inaccurate’ description of why articles were pulled—The Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology , a Wiley title, has corrected a pair of retraction notices in which “the reasons for the retract...

+ Weekend reads: RFK Jr’s 2011 retraction; ‘the great AI witch hunt’; scientific misconduct in Switzerland—W ould you  consider a donation to support Weekend Reads,  and our daily work ? The week at Retraction Watch featured: ‘All the red f...

+ Engineering publisher pulled 57 papers in a day for peer review ‘irregularities’—The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers retracted 57 articles on October 1 for inadequate peer review, according to the publisher.  ...

+ eLife won’t get an impact factor, says Clarivate—Clarivate, the data company for scholarly publications, has decided to continue indexing some content from eLife in Web of Science, after reevaluati...

+ Retraction Watch is hiring! Two journalism jobs available—Thanks to generous support from the WoodNext Foundation and ongoing support from individual donors, as well as revenue from journalism partnerships an...

+ ‘All the red flags’: Scientific Reports retracts paper sleuths called out in open letter—Scientific Reports , a Springer Nature title, has retracted an article a group of sleuths described as “a kind of case study of all the red flags for ...

+ Weekend reads: Top Alzheimer’s researcher on leave; president calls for superconductivity researcher to be fired; continued citation of retracted papers—W ould you  consider a donation to support Weekend Reads,  and our daily work ? The week at Retraction Watch featured: ...

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