ELife Won't Get an Impact Factor, Says Clarivate
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Publisher Adds Temporary Online Notifications to Articles "under Investigation"
Some journal articles on the Taylor & Francis website now bear a pop-up notification stating the papers are "currently under investigation."
'I Felt Like a Fraud': A Biologist Goes Public About a Retraction
Retractions are the stuff of nightmares for most academics. But they aren't necessarily a career obstacle, and sometimes may be the only way forward, according to Andrew P. Anderson.
Deceptive Academic Journals: An Excerpt from The Predator Effect
Deceptive Academic Journals: An Excerpt from The Predator Effect
Predatory journals - even the term is controversial - have been a vexing problem for many years, and have certainly been a subject of coverage at Retraction Watch and elsewhere.
Springer Nature Slaps More Than 400 Papers with Expressions of Concern All at Once
Cartoon by Hilda Bastian (license) A total of 436 papers in two Springer Nature journals are being subjected to expressions of concern, in the latest case of special issues - in this case, "t…
Elsevier Journals Ask Retraction Watch to Review COVID-19 Papers
At the risk of breaking the Fourth Wall, here's a story about peer reviews that weren't - and shouldn't have been.
Widely Shared Vitamin D-COVID-19 Preprint Removed from Lancet Server
A preprint promoted by a member of the UK Parliament for claiming to show that vitamin D led to an “80% reduction in need for ICU and a 60% reduction in deaths” has been removed from a server used by The Lancet family of journals.
Science Retracts Paper Co-authored by High-profile Scientist and Former Dutch Minister
Elsevier Looking into "very Serious Concerns" After Student Calls out Journal for Fleet of Star Trek Articles
Elsevier Looking into "very Serious Concerns" After Student Calls out Journal for Fleet of Star Trek Articles
'I Thought I Had Messed Up My Experiment': How a Grad Student Discovered an Error That Might Affect Hundreds of Papers
'I Thought I Had Messed Up My Experiment': How a Grad Student Discovered an Error That Might Affect Hundreds of Papers
PubPeer Comments Prompt Science Expression of Concern
Science has issued an expression of concern for a paper it published earlier this summer after readers pointed out suspect images in the work.
Study of China's Ethnic Minorities Retracted As Dozens of Papers Come Under Scrutiny for Ethical Violations
Study of China's Ethnic Minorities Retracted As Dozens of Papers Come Under Scrutiny for Ethical Violations
A legal journal has retracted a 2019 article on the facial genetics of ethnic minorities in China for ethics violations. Springer Nature is investigating more than two dozen other articles for similar concerns.
Ten takeaways from ten years at Retraction Watch
Retraction Watch looks back at some lessons learned.
Cite Yourself Excessively, Apologize, then Republish the Papers with Fewer Self-citations. Journal says: Fine.
Cite Yourself Excessively, Apologize, then Republish the Papers with Fewer Self-citations. Journal says: Fine.
Via Wikimedia A journal has allowed a geophysicist who cited his own work hundreds of times across 10 papers to retract the articles and republish them with a fraction of the self-citations.
Author Retracts Nature Commentary over Concerns About Section's Sponsorship
Author Retracts Nature Commentary over Concerns About Section's Sponsorship
Nature has retracted a recent commentary after the author complained that he had been misled by the relationship of the publication to a financial sponsor and told to avoid critiquing work from the institution. The journal says it is revisiting its “editorial guidelines and processes” in the wake of the case.
"Stunned, Very Confused": Two More Journals Push Back Against Impact Factor Suppression
"Stunned, Very Confused": Two More Journals Push Back Against Impact Factor Suppression
At least two more journals are fighting decisions by Clarivate — the company behind the Impact Factor — to suppress them from the 2019 list of journals assigned a metric that many rightly or wrongly consider career-making.
Major Indexing Service Sounds Alarm on Self-citations by Nearly 50 Journals
Are impact factors manipulated by a large-scale practice of self-citation?
French Hydroxychloroquine-COVID-19 Study Withdrawn
The authors of a preprint on use of hydroxychloroquine, the controversial drug heavily promoted by President Trump, have withdrawn the paper.
Weekend Reads: Retracted COVID-19 Papers; a Coronavirus Study Kept Under Wraps; Harvard and Jeffrey Epstein
Weekend Reads: Retracted COVID-19 Papers; a Coronavirus Study Kept Under Wraps; Harvard and Jeffrey Epstein
Before we present this week's Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads…
'Aggressive' COVID-19 Strains: What It Takes to Correct a Flawed Paper
Scottish researchers have taken aim at a study reporting surprising findings on COVID-19 - but what it took to correct the record is all too familiar.
Retracted Coronavirus (COVID-19) Papers
Retraction Watch has been tracking retractions of papers about COVID-19 as part of their database. Here's a running list, which will be updated as needed.
Hydroxychloroquine-COVID-19 Study Did Not Meet Publishing Society's "expected Standard"
Hydroxychloroquine-COVID-19 Study Did Not Meet Publishing Society's "expected Standard"
The paper that appears to have triggered the Trump administration’s obsession with hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for infection with the novel coronavirus has received a statement of concern from the society that publishes the journal in which the work appeared.
University Finds Dozens of Papers by Late - and Controversial - Psychologist Hans Eysenck "unsafe"
University Finds Dozens of Papers by Late - and Controversial - Psychologist Hans Eysenck "unsafe"
Hans Eysenck More than two dozen papers by a controversial psychologist who died in 1997 are "unsafe."
Nature Walks Back Mentorship Prize for Spanish Scientist with Nine Retractions
Carlos Lopez-Otin Nature is rescinding an award to a Spanish researcher whose group has at least nine retractions for problems with their published images.
A Publisher Wants to Destigmatize Retractions. Here's How
It's no secret that retractions have a stigma, which is very likely part of why authors often resist the move - even when honest error is involved.
A Publisher Just Retracted 22 Articles. And the Whistleblower is Just Getting Started.
A Publisher Just Retracted 22 Articles. And the Whistleblower is Just Getting Started.
SAGE Publishing is today retracting 22 articles by a materials science researcher who published in two of their journals - but the anonymous reader who brought the problems to their attention…
Journals Retract More Than a Dozen Studies from China That May Have Used Executed Prisoners' Organs
Journals Retract More Than a Dozen Studies from China That May Have Used Executed Prisoners' Organs
In the past month, PLOS ONE and Transplantation have retracted fifteen studies by authors in China because of suspicions that the authors may have used organs from executed prisoners.
Prof Who Lost Emeritus Status for Views on Race and Intelligence Has Paper Flagged
Prof Who Lost Emeritus Status for Views on Race and Intelligence Has Paper Flagged
Richard Lynn A former emeritus professor who has been called "one of the most unapologetic and raw 'scientific' racists operating today" has had one of his papers subjected to an expression of concern.
Elsevier Looking into How "unorthodox" Paper Featuring Ancient Astronauts Was Published
Elsevier Looking into How "unorthodox" Paper Featuring Ancient Astronauts Was Published
Elsevier is looking into how one of its journals published a paper which makes bizarre claims about the knowledge of the ancients.
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