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New rule in Peru restricts authors with retractions from getting special bonuses
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (738+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. In an ongoing effort to combat scientific misconduct, Peru has passed new rules that bar research faculty at public universities there from receiving…...
Weekend reads: Autism-vaccine researcher arraigned; "accidental watermarks" in medical literature; mass resignations and zombie journals
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (301+ words) Retraction Watch Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. If your week flew by " we know ours did " catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at…...
Nine years after journalist raised concerns, BMJ Group journal retracts stent paper " Retraction Watch
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (592+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. A BMJ Group journal has retracted a paper nearly nine years after a journalist raised concerns about undisclosed conflicts of interest and the…...
Elsevier journal removes two 42-year-old papers on cesium as a cancer treatment
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (597+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. An Elsevier journal has removed two papers on a discredited alternative treatment for cancer nearly half a decade after they were published, after…...
Reviewer finds "top pharmaceutical scientist" has a self-citation problem
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (346+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. Daniel Bar-Shalom, a pharmacist at the University of Copenhagen, was incensed. There, sprinkled throughout the text, were several irrelevant and trivial sentences. "Novel…...
Elsevier retracts the least and reinstates the most, new analysis finds
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (768+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. While Elsevier outcompetes other publishers in terms of sheer volume, it also has the lowest retraction rate and highest rate of reinstating articles…...
Weekend reads: FDA blocked vaccine findings; "Frankencitations Ravage the Academic Countryside; "Publish and Perish
1+ week, 2+ day ago (303+ words) Retraction Watch Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. If your week flew by " we know ours did " catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at…...
Swiss court clears sleuth in defamation case, awards him legal costs " Retraction Watch
1+ week, 2+ day ago (683+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. An appeals court in Switzerland has overturned a 2025 defamation conviction against a sleuth who had identified dozens of conference proceedings with signs of…...
One in 277 Pub Med-indexed papers in 2026 shows fabricated references, says analysis
1+ week, 3+ day ago (607+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2. 5 million papers published as a…...
Russian news outlets hailed a cancer breakthrough, but the retraction went unnoticed
1+ week, 4+ day ago (631+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. But four years later, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, the journal that had published the paper, retracted it." But in statements to Retraction…...