Weekend reads: Sexism from a Nobel laureate; publisher deception;...
The week at Retraction Watch featured the story behind a Nature retraction, and the retraction of a paper by a pioneer in the field of exosome research. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Nobel Prize...
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This week saw us profiled in The New York Times and de Volkskrant, and the introduction of our new staff writer. We also launched The Retraction Watch Leaderboard. Here’s what was happening elsewhere:...
View ArticleWeekend reads: LaCour loses job offer; new Science data guidelines;...
This week at Retraction Watch saw us report on thousands of retractions from IEEE, which will have a serious effect on retraction record-keeping, a bizarre case of author impersonation, and a look at...
View ArticleWeekend reads: Is failing to share data misconduct?; worst journal ever;...
The big news this week at Retraction Watch was the release of more than two dozen retractions for accounting researcher James Hunton, and the sentencing of Dong-Pyou Han for scientific fraud (see more...
View ArticleWeekend reads: California universities battle in court for research dollars;...
This week at Retraction Watch featured a look at the nuances of replication efforts, aka “the replication paradox,” as well as yet another story of fake peer reviews, this time at Hindawi. Here’s what...
View ArticleWeekend reads: How to publish in Nature; social media circumvents peer...
The week at Retraction Watch featured a look at why a fraudster’s papers continued to earn citations after he went to prison, and criticism of Science by hundreds of researchers. Here’s what was...
View ArticleWeekend reads: Fame bias at journals; retractions as good news; hoarding data...
This week at Retraction Watch featured the retraction of a widely covered paper on marriage and illness, and the resignation of a high-profile lab head in Toronto. Here’s what was happening elsewhere:...
View ArticleWeekend reads: What really happened in that lab?; best excuses for falsifying...
The week at Retraction Watch featured the correction of a widely covered study claiming to find evidence of the plague and anthrax on New York City subways, and rulings against scientists suing...
View ArticleWeekend reads: Academic article brokering; favorite fieldwork bloopers; worst...
This week, we marked the fifth anniversary of Retraction Watch with the announcement of a generous new grant. We also covered the retraction of a slew of papers in a journal plagued by problems. Here’s...
View ArticleWeekend reads: Top science excuses; how figures can mislead; a strange...
The week at Retraction Watch featured a primer on research misconduct proceedings, and some developments in the case of Joachim Boldt, who is now second on our leaderboard. Here’s what was happening...
View ArticleWeekend reads: “Unfeasibly prolific authors;” why your manuscript will be...
The week at Retraction Watch featured revelations of yet more fake peer reviews, bringing the retraction total to 250. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Can researchers publish too often? Liz Wager...
View ArticleWeekend reads: Ghost authors proliferate; science goes to the movies; pricey...
The week at Retraction Watch featured the results of a massive replication study, yet another retraction for Diederik Stapel, and a messy situation at PLOS. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Who ya...
View ArticleWeekend reads: Journal invents time machine; endless author lists; is nuance...
The week at Retraction Watch featured the unmasking of the people behind PubPeer, and an editor doing the right thing following a high-profile retraction. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Jeffrey...
View ArticleWeekend reads: Backstabbing; plagiarism irony; preprints to the rescue
The week at Retraction Watch featured a call for the retraction of a paper in NEJM, and a withdrawal of a paper because authors couldn’t pay the page charges. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Was...
View ArticleWeekend reads: Country retraction rankings; social psychology department...
This week at Retraction Watch featured an ironic case of what doesn’t make a journal great, and the retraction of a paper from JAMA. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Which countries and journals...
View ArticleWeekend reads: STAP saga over once and for all?; plagiarizing prof gets tenure
The week at Retraction Watch featured the appeal of a modern-day retraction, and a look at whether a retraction by a Nobel Prize winner should be retracted 50 years later. Here’s what was happening...
View ArticleWeekend reads, part 1: Editor slams PubPeer; scientific fraud pays off
The week at Retraction Watch featured yet another case of fake peer review, and a court sentence for a Danish researcher found to have committed fraud. Here’s what was happening elsewhere (stay tuned...
View ArticleWeekend reads, part 2: Criminalizing scientific fraud; Nobel Prize folly;...
There were so many items to choose from this week for Weekend Reads — probably because it was Peer Review Week — that we decided to split them into two posts. Here’s part 2: If Volkswagen can be...
View ArticleWeekend reads: FDA nominee authorship questions; low economics replication rates
The week at Retraction Watch featured a mysterious retraction from PLOS ONE, and a thoughtful piece by a scientist we’ve covered frequently on where we went wrong in that coverage. Here’s what was...
View ArticleWeekend reads: Angry meta-analysts; imposter cell lines; when things go wrong
This week at Retraction Watch featured nine more fake peer review retractions, this time from Elsevier, and an update to the retraction count for one-time record holder Joachim Boldt. Here’s what was...
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