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Black marks on published papers don't change citation rates, new study finds
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (355+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. Neither retractions, expressions of concern, nor other editorial notices seem to keep authors from continuing to cite problematic papers, according to a look…...
Journal goes dark after impersonating Eric Topol and others
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (483+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. Within hours of researchers from prestigious institutions discovering they were listed as authors on a fabricated paper, the website for the journal and…...
Buying a first author slot can cost you anywhere from $56 to $5, 600
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (580+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. The market for fake authorship on a research paper has prices to match every budget, according to a new dataset compiled from thousands…...
Another retraction and two investigations for chemist
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (325+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. A chemist in Austria who earned a retraction earlier this year is under investigation by his former university, a national research integrity agency…...
I asked him to stop: Father adds daughters name to over 100 preprints without her permission
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (544+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. An author in China with nearly 500 preprints has continued to add his daughter's name to papers " despite her insistence she was not involved....
Major pharmacology journals flag another 15 papers by scientist facing criminal probe
1+ week, 1+ day ago (400+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. A leading pharmacologist in Italy accused of embezzling research funds is now the subject of coordinated editorial action by one of the field's…...
10 years ago, Elisabeth Bik published a preprint heard around the world
1+ week, 2+ day ago (670+ words) If you are at all familiar with scientific sleuthing, you're familiar with Elisabeth Bik. She is quoted so often in the mainstream media it is probably difficult to imagine a time before her supersense for spotting similarities in images wasn't…...
Game-changer" breast cancer study retracted as Indiana researcher out of his post
1+ week, 6+ day ago (386+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. A group of cancer researchers whose work has been questioned by sleuths has been hit with their third retraction in less than a…...
BMJ retracts most of a special issue for "compromised" peer review and "improbable device use"
2+ week, 11+ hour ago (567+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. BMJ's Journal of Medical Genetics has retracted the bulk of a seven-year-old special issue for an "irreparably compromised" review process and "improbable device…...
Weekend reads: LLMs "are not the problem; Cash for peer review "doesnt work, project finds; "Many Flaws, Few Retractions in vaping literature
2+ week, 3+ day ago (207+ 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…...