- + Former Mount Sinai postdoc falsified images in grant updates, ORI says—The U.S. Office of Research Integrity has sanctioned a former postdoctoral fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York for manip...
- + Stolen economics study retracted following Retraction Watch coverage—An economics study that was stolen and had its authorship slots sold by a paper mill has been retracted. The move follows our reporting in...
- + Weekend reads: The LLMs ‘willing to commit academic fraud’; ‘peer replication’ instead of review; a ‘spam filter’ for predatory journals—If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Preprint s...
- + Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal—Gunnar Ridderström/ Pexels As a hospital librarian, Jessica Waite is typically successful at tracking down elusive articles for clinicians at ...
- + Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper—Last year, we wrote about a Walsh Medical Media journal that refused to withdraw an author’s paper unless he paid a fee — even though he didn’t write ...
- + Controversial comet theory struck by two new retractions—In a now-retracted paper, the authors report they found shocked quartz formed by an airburst from clouds of comet fragments that hit earth more than 1...
- + A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction—A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fiction...
- + Preprint server removes study attributing increased infant mortality to vaccines—Alachua County/Flickr A preprint server has withdrawn a study that suggested children vaccinated in the second month of life are more likely t...
- + Weekend reads: Institute to stop paying fees for some OA journals; sleuths’ tips for spotting fraud; Bayer sues J&J over ‘false and misleading claims’—If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Journal re...
- + Researcher ‘honestly shocked’ to discover name on paper, editor claims misunderstanding—While reviewing her Google Scholar profile to prepare a list of her publications, psychologist Maryam Farhang came across a paper she didn’t recognize...
- + Exclusive: Unrest at Wiley journal whose EIC is cited in more than half of its papers—Timothy Lee of Macau University of Science and Technology was named editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Tourism Research in 2023. ...
- + Heart researcher asked to attend remedial training after OSU misconduct finding, report reveals—In a move one research ethics expert called “odd,” a university asked one of its professors to attend a remedial integrity course — despite their “sig...
- + Chemist nears three dozen retractions for image duplication, self-citation and more—A screenshot of Louis’ LinkedIn profile before we reached out to him. Racking up 35 retractions in just 24 months, chemist Hitler Loui...
- + Journal retracts GLP-1 study after researcher questions central finding —Image: iStock After reading a recent study about GLP-1 treatment in the International Journal of Obesity , David B. Allison immediately became...
- + Weekend reads: Did a prof invent his own ‘Nobel Prize’?; former dean omits pharma ties; AI generated quotes found in now-retracted article on AI—If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Nature jou...
- + Publisher flags more than 120 papers three and a half years after learning of problems—What started as a small editorial conundrum several years ago has turned into an expression of concern for dozens of papers in a medical journal, th...
- + Porn addiction recovery group sues publisher, UCLA researcher over critical paper—An online peer support group for people overcoming addiction to pornography has filed a lawsuit against the authors of a paper critical of the group, ...
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