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Weekend reads: ‘Don’t hate the replicator, hate the game’; Crossref finds 150K incorrect citation links in database; Announcing our Ctrl-Z award – #RetractionWatch
Economist discusses “internationally crowdsourced surveillance system, designed to keep social scientists honest”
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Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud
Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.
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Exclusive: Unrest at Wiley journal whose EIC is cited in more than half of its papers Timothy Lee (center) of Macau University of Science and Technology was named editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Tourism Research in 2023. On Feb. 18, a researcher in Italy sent a disgr…

Exclusive: Unrest at Wiley journal whose EIC is cited in more than half of its papers

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📄🔍 Zurückgezogene Artikel zitieren, ohne es zu merken?

Retractions rechtzeitig zu erkennen ist gar nicht so einfach. Allein 2023 wurden weltweit mehr als 10.000 wissenschaftliche Artikel zurückgezogen. Mit Retraction Watch und dem Zotero-Plugin behält man den Überblick und erkennt Retractions […]

Verantwortungsblog – Zentrum verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung

Ungekennzeichnete KI-Nutzung, Textartefakte wie „Regenerate Response“, erfundene Literaturangaben und ein Publikationsbetrieb, der solche Dinge teils offenbar durchwinkt.

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Retractación en @Nature; ¿sanciones para las universidades con mayor retractación? Análisis de revistas PISS #RetractionWatch
Profesor suspendido después de que una universidad japonesa encontrara resultados sospechosos en un artículo sobre sushi

Exclusiva: En un cambio de postura, el exvicecanciller de Pakistán, exonerado por #plagio, enfrenta sanciones – #RetractionWatch

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A retraction in Nature; penalties for ‘retraction hotspot universities? analysis of PISS journals #RetractionWatch
Professor suspended after #Japaneseuniversity finds fishy results in sushi paper
Sage journal retracts more than 40 papers over concerns with peer review, author contributions […]

Exclusive: In reversal, former vice chancellor in Pakistan who was let off hook for plagiarism faces sanctions Three years after he was let off the hook by a government commission, a former university vice chancellor in Pakistan is facing sanctions for plagiarizing a student thesis in a paper from 2020, Retraction Watch has learned. Muhammad Suleman Tahir, previously of Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, is now professor and chair … Continue reading Exclusive: In reversal, former vice chancellor in Pakistan who was let off hook for plagiarism faces sanctions

Exclusive: In reversal, former vice chancellor in Pakistan who was let off hook for #plagiarism faces sanctions – #RetractionWatch

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COPE’s involvement leads to retraction of paper on homeopathy for lung cancer A journal that last year corrected a paper claiming to show a homeopathic intervention improved quality of life and survival for people with advanced lung cancer has now retracted the article after the Committee on Publication Ethics got involved in the case. The extensive correction and an accompanying editorial, published in September 2024 in The … Continue reading COPE’s involvement leads to retraction of paper on homeopathy for lung cancer

COPE’s involvement leads to retraction of paper on homeopathy for lung cancer –

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Conflict of Interest and financial disclosure policies of journals that publish weather and climate research."
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‘The fall of a prolific science journal’; Clinical trials by ‘super-retractors’; ‘How to Study Things That May Not Exist’ – #RetractionWatch
The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Iraqi journal suspected of coercion, two others dropped from major citation databases
Authors retract Nature paper […]

Widespread image reuse, manipulation uncovered in animal studies of brain injury One of the papers in the analysis contained a figure (bottom) found to have overlap with other work by the same author (top). Both papers have been retracted. Annotated images: PubPeer More than 20…

Widespread image reuse, manipulation uncovered in animal studies of brain injury  retractionwatch.com/2025/10/30/w...

#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Research #Ethics #Microscopy #Nanoscience #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #Misconduct #Fraud #ImageManipulation #RetractionWatch

Elsevier journals ask Retraction Watch to review COVID-19 papers Ivan Oransky: Not a COVID-19 expertcredit: Elizabeth Solaka At the risk of breaking the Fourth Wall, here’s a story about peer reviews that weren’t — and shouldn’t have been. Since mid-Februa…

Some #Elsevier #journals may not be putting much effort into choosing #qualified #experts as #peer #reviewers. Some of them asked Ivan Oransky, MD, of the blog #RetractionWatch to review four different COVID-19 papers. Here’s what Oransky says: retractionwatch.com/2021/03/09/e...

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Retraction Note: Impact of domestic violence against pregnant women in Minia governorate, Egypt: a cross sectional study

"the study appears not to have been approved by the Institutional ethical committee of the Faculty of Medicine, Minia University." […]

Bit of a wild shot, but I'm playing with #RetractionWatch data and #Altmetrics data for a side project and am seeking light, informal guidance here and there from people with experience.

Happy to work through details in DMs (open for you).

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The RW Daily: #Iraqiuniversity, the University of Technology in Baghdad , forcing students to cite its journals to graduate. And primatologist settles lawsuit following contract mishandling.

#Coercivecitation is widespread in academia and can help boost the rankings of […]

Well yes, you got me there. The sciences are in a self-correcting bloodbath. A good thing too.

Even @retractionwatch.com shit the bed with their bogus dual postings on Facebook where they doubled-down on promoting industry-promoted fake nutritional claims. Pathetic.

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#RetractionWatch
Papers & #peerreviews with evidence of #ChatGPT writing

Retraction Watch readers have likely heard about papers showing evidence that they were written by ChatGPT. We have reported on the phenomenon.

Here’s a list — relying on a search strategy developed by #GuillaumeCabanac […]

📝 Latest Publication Alert! 📝

"Analysis of scientific paper retractions due to data problems: Revealing challenges and countermeasures in data management"

Wanfei Hu et al.

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La pillada a #Springer por #RetractionWatch
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El libro hecho con #IA y sin revisiones de pares lo publicaron igual, sin verificación ✅ ☑️

Al menos una […]

Particle 101: Retracted research | Particle Retracting research is an important part of the scientific process.

Research gets retracted more than you might expect. It's an important part of the scientific process. But why?

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#RetractionWatch ha descubierto que #SpringerNature retirará un libro sobre aprendizaje automático que contenía múltiples referencias a obras inexistentes.

Cobertura de @RetractionWatch

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That's right In the #RetractionWatch article they describe the #fraud

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Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations
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Would you pay $169 for an introductory #ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up?

If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Advanced […]

10 years after the downfall of a same-sex marriage canvassing study, tenure, some better practices — and an engagement A study on how conversations can change minds grabbed headlines when it was published — and again five months later when retracted. “Gay Advocates Can Shift Same-Sex Marriage Views,” read the New Y…

10 years after the downfall of a same-sex marriage canvassing study, tenure, some better practices...: tinyurl.run/6Jur44

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‘Anyone can do this’: Sleuths publish a toolkit for post-publication review – Retraction Watch For years, sleuths – whose names our readers are likely familiar with – have been diligently flagging issues with the scientific literature. More than a dozen of these specialists have teamed up to…

From #RetractionWatch: "‘Anyone can do this’: Sleuths publish a #toolkit for post-publication review"

#Science #Ethics #ScienceEthics


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Just checked, and yes, my retracted paper is in the #retractionwatch database, as it should be. However, I wish the reason didn't include that it was an investigation by the journal/publisher, it was me who sweated and wrote a new paper with a solid theorem explaining why our old paper was […]

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Predatory journals even worse since “Get Me Off Your F*ck*ng Mailing List” was accepted for publication The 2005 paper repeats the phrase “Get me off your fucking mailing list” for ten pages. The authors are still on the mailing list.

Predatory journals even worse since "Get Me Off Your F*ck*ng Mailing List" was accepted for publication: boingboing.net/2025/04/12/p...

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