Retraction Watch · Scour

A citation alert led researchers to a network of fake articles. But who is benefiting?

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Weekend reads: ‘Illicit AI use’ in hundreds of peer reviews; 49-year-old commentary on talc retracted; co-authorship as a ‘traded commodity’

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Why don’t journalists circle back to cover retractions? A conversation with Malgorzata Iwaniec-Thompson

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Judge upholds 15-year debarment against scientist who once threatened to sue Retraction Watch

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The Lancet retracts half-century-old unsigned commentary on talc for undisclosed industry ties

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Publisher to retract entire conference proceedings, ban editor who wrote most of them

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Guest post: A call to end the ‘impact on conclusions’ test for retraction

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Physicists flag over 50 papers on superheavy elements, leading to 3 retractions

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Weekend reads: How to buy a scientific paper; creating responsible authorship culture; sanction authors for hallucinated references?

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Technology journal pulls papers for unauthorized author changes, fictitious emails

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Most editors at math journal resign over multiple reviews, ‘cloak-and-dagger’ removal of EIC

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University of Melbourne opens formal investigation into education researcher John Hattie

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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

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Embattled journal brand mistakenly invites out-of-scope researchers to join board

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Controversial editorial practices boost plastic surgeon’s publishing empire

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Former Mount Sinai postdoc falsified images in grant updates, ORI says

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Stolen economics study retracted following Retraction Watch coverage

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Weekend reads: The LLMs ‘willing to commit academic fraud’; ‘peer replication’ instead of review; a ‘spam filter’ for predatory journals

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Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal

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Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper

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