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Computer science society creates new research integrity role to address case backlog" " Retraction Watch
5+ hour, 49+ min ago (532+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. Over the last five years, the Association for Computing Machinery has been dealing with a rapid rise in allegations of research misconduct that…...
Editors of Courant math journal to leave Wiley, establish new roots with independent publisher
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (547+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. Editors of a journal run by a prestigious math institute will close up shop and form a new journal with an independent publisher,…...
Sex pay ban paper earns a retraction after a long and winding road for an unhappy author
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (1156+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. In March 2024, Riccardo Ciacci, an economist at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Spain, published a paper claiming Sweden's ban on buying sex had…...
Physicist in Iraq fired over publishing scam claims fake Columbia affiliation in new paper
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (578+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. Five months after he was fired by ministerial order, an Iraqi professor of physics at the center of a massive publishing scam submitted…...
Weekend reads: A tsunami of misleading medical studies; retraction calls cancer therapy timing into question; a closer look at Max Planck's retractions
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (307+ 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…...
RFK Jr. has various stances on retractions. Critics say he's "politicizing' them
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1084+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. s letter demanding answers from a journal that recently retracted an article about vaccines has drawn significant attention. But the…...
Journal investigating paper on cognitive impact of generative AI
2+ week, 1+ day ago (461+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. A paper about the effects of generative AI use on confidence in work tasks is under investigation after critics raised questions about the…...
Economist outs another Indian university's rankings-boosting scheme when they refuse to pay him
2+ week, 2+ day ago (624+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. On May 9, a university administrator in Afghanistan threatened in a Linked In post to expose what he called a publishing scam by private…...
Publisher investigating two more papers on glyphosate safety over ghostwriting claims " Retraction Watch
2+ week, 3+ day ago (833+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. Tayor & Francis is investigating two papers about the weed killer Roundup following claims the articles were ghostwritten by the company that developed the…...
Weekend reads: Uneven sanctions for misconduct; protein name confusion in hundreds of papers; the Journal of Research on Research " Retraction Watch
2+ week, 5+ day ago (339+ words) Weekend reads: Uneven sanctions for misconduct; protein name confusion in hundreds of papers; the Journal of Research on Research Retraction Watch Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. If your…...