- + Weekend reads: Editor under scrutiny resigns; bullshitting scientists; questionable practices in expanding disciplines—W ould you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work ? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Give or take a...
- + Journal pulls paper by economist who failed to disclose data tinkering—An Elsevier journal last week retracted a paper by two senior economists who used questionable methods to replace large chunks of missing observatio...
- + Concussion researcher McCrory up to 17 retractions—Paul McCrory More than two years after retracting an article by one of its former editors in chief for plagiarism, the British Journal of Sport...
- + Give or take a year or two: Case reveals publishers’ vastly different retraction times—Eric Ross On March 1, 2022, Eric Ross, then a psychiatrist-in-training in Boston, alerted two major publishers to a pair of disturbingly similar...
- + Weekend reads: Medical residents’ publish or perish problem; Alzheimer’s and predatory journals; brain biopsies set off alarm bells—W ould you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work ? The week at Retraction Watch featured: A study of C-s...
- + A study of C-section scars – in women who hadn’t undergone the surgery—A study purportedly of scars left by caesarean sections included women yet to undergo the surgery, say sleuths. But an investigation into the research...
- + Cureus retracts paper for plagiarism following Retraction Watch inquiries —The journal Cureus has retracted a 2022 paper on cancer and the environment just weeks after Retraction Watch raised questions about apparent plagia...
- + Publisher retracts more than a dozen papers at once for likely paper mill activity—The Scottish Medical Journal has retracted more than a dozen papers dating back to 2020 after concluding the articles were likely produced by one or...
- + Weekend reads: Superconductivity researcher’s lawsuit dismissed; no grounds for prosecuting Elisabeth Bik; a rector candidate who boosted his metrics—W ould you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work ? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Controversia...
- + Exclusive: Psychology researcher loses PhD after allegedly using husband in study and making up data—Ping Dong A psychology researcher already under fire for several questionable studies has had her PhD revoked by a university tribunal that foun...
- + Send lawyers, Einstein and Maugham: Authors object to PLOS ONE retraction—Ming Zhou Here’s a tale of a paper retracted because other articles published years later seemed to plagiarize it – and its unhappy authors, who...
- + Controversial rocket scientist in India threatens legal action after journals pull papers—A professor of aerospace engineering in India who developed a scientific theory critics call “absolute nonsense” said he is suing journal editors and ...
- + Weekend reads: Deans out following Retraction Watch reporting; making sense of retractions; why one university is having grants withheld—W ould you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work ? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Dean in Indone...
- + Dean in Indonesia resigns following Retraction Watch report—Kumba Digdowiseiso Kumba Digdowiseiso, the dean of the economics and business faculty at Universitas Nasional in Jakarta, Indonesia, resigned on...
- + Weekend reads: A decade after the STAP scandal; more allegations about Francesca Gino; the disappearing journal—W ould you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work ? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Publisher flag...
- + Exclusive: Wiley journal editor under investigation for duplicate publications—Daniel Joseph Berdida An academic editor at Wiley who vowed to “uphold publication ethics” is being investigated by the company for allegedly ...
- + The dean who came to visit – and added dozens of authors without their knowledge—Kumba Digdowiseiso Earlier this year, a group of lecturers in Malaysia received a WhatsApp message from a colleague who had made a disturbing di...
- + Publisher flags papers found by university to involve misconduct more than a year ago—Toxicologic Pathology – a Sage title – has issued expressions of concern for six papers that were among the subjects of an investigation by Azabu Uni...
- + Weekend reads: ‘Objectionable conditions’ at psychiatry institute; impact factor obsession; Nobel winner acknowledges more errors—W ould you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work ? The week at Retraction Watch featured: ...
- + Cureus reviewing paper alleged to plagiarize Lancet article—A 2022 paper in Cureus on causes of cancer around the world is under investigation by the journal following inquiries by Retraction Watch prompted b...
- + Embattled researcher Didier Raoult earns more than 100 expressions of concern and another retraction—Didier Raoult An Elsevier journal has issued just over 100 expressions of concern for papers published by a group of researchers led by the Fren...
- + High-profile ob-gyn accused of duplicating data threatens to sue critic—Gian Carlo Di Renzo Sometime last summer, Ben Mol, an obstetrician-gynecology researcher in Australia, and his colleagues were adapting a Europ...
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