Will Scientific Error Checkers Become As Ubiquitous As Spell-Checkers?
How common are calculation errors in the scientific literature? And can they be caught by an algorithm?
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Journal Retracts More Than 400 Papers at Once
Ladies and gentlemen, we appear to have a new record. The Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences (JFAS) recently retracted 434 articles from three issues of their journal. Yes, 434, giving it …
Retracted Papers Keep Being Cited as if they Weren’t Retracted. Two Researchers Suggest how Elsevier Could Help Fix that.
Retracted Papers Keep Being Cited as if they Weren’t Retracted. Two Researchers Suggest how Elsevier Could Help Fix that.
Even after a paper’s retracted, it will continue to be cited - often by researchers who don’t realize the findings are problematic.
RetractionDatabase.Org: The Retraction Watch Retraction Database
Retraction Watch retraction database, being built with the support of the MacArthur and Arnold Foundations.
Want to Earn $10k per Month? Join the "Journals Mafia"
A new service called "Journals Mafia" appears to act as an intermediary between authors and journals - accepting articles, formatting and fixing the language, and submitting it to the journal. Since the authors pay to publish the articles, the company shares the profits with journals that publish the paper.
Nature Says It Wants to Publish Replication Attempts. so What Happened When a Group of Authors Submitted One to Nature Neuroscience?
Nature Says It Wants to Publish Replication Attempts. so What Happened When a Group of Authors Submitted One to Nature Neuroscience?
Over the past few years, Nature has published editorials extolling the virtues of replication, concluding in one that “We welcome, and will be glad to help disseminate, results that explore the validity of key publications, including our own.” Mante Nieuwland, of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and colleagues were encouraged by that message and submitted one such replication attempt to Nature Neuroscience. In a three-part guest post, Nieuwland will describe what happened when they did and discusses whether reality lives up to the rhetoric.
Thousands Boycott New Nature Journal About Machine Learning
More than two thousand researchers have signed a petition to boycott a new Nature journal over the fact it will be available only by subscription.
How Often Do Scientists Who Commit Misconduct Do It Again?
When someone has to retract a paper for misconduct, what are the odds they will do it again? And how can we use that information to stop repeat offenders?
Over a Dozen Editorial Board Members Resigned When a Journal Refused to Retract a Paper
Over a Dozen Editorial Board Members Resigned When a Journal Refused to Retract a Paper
Following a massive editorial protest, Scientific Reports is admitting its handling of a disputed paper was "insufficient and inadequate," and has agreed to retract it.
New Feature Aims to Draw Journals Into Post-Publication Comments on PubPeer
The Journal Dashboards allow journals to see what people are saying about the papers they published, and allows readers to know which journals are particularly responsive to community feedback.
"Definitely Embarrassing:" Nobel Laureate Retracts Non-Reproducible Paper in Nature Journal
"Definitely Embarrassing:" Nobel Laureate Retracts Non-Reproducible Paper in Nature Journal
A Nobel Laureate has retracted a 2016 paper in Nature Chemistry that explored the origins of life on earth, after discovering the main conclusions were not correct.
New York Psychiatry Researcher Charged with Embezzlement, Faces Jail Time
A researcher specializing in post-traumatic stress disorder is facing jail time for allegedly embezzling tens of thousands of dollars of federal grant money.
Make Reviews Public, Says Peer Review Expert
Retraction Watch interviews Irene Hames.
Newly Released AI Software Writes Papers for You
This week, we received a press release that caught our attention: A company is releasing software it claims will write manuscripts using researchers’ data.
17 Researchers Resign in Protest from Editorial Board at Nature Journal
More than a dozen members of the editorial board at Scientific Reports have resigned after the journal decided not to retract a 2016 paper that a researcher claims plagiarized his work. As of this morning, 19 people — mostly researchers based at Johns Hopkins — had stepped down from the board.
"Failure Is an Essential Part of Science"
Q&A with the author of a new book on reproducibility.
Got "Significosis?" Here Are the Five Diseases of Academic Publishing
How to prevent, diagnose, and treat the five diseases of academic publishing.
7 Signs a Scientific Paper's Authorship Was Bought
There is a growing trend of authors purchasing a spot on the author list of papers-for-sale – and the better the journal, the higher the price.
"We have an epidemic of deeply flawed meta-analyses"
John Ioannidis suggests that the number of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in literature have each increased by more than 2500% since 1991.
Should systematic reviewers report suspected misconduct?
Authors of systematic review articles sometimes overlook misconduct and conflicts of interest present in the research they are analyzing, according to a recent study published in BMJ Open.
Publishing needs more science, fewer stories: Q&A with founders of ScienceMatters
Ever wish you could just publish an exciting result, without having to wait for the entire string of data that follows in order to tell an entire story, which then gets held up for months by peer review at traditional journals?
Do publishers add value? Maybe little, suggests preprint study of preprints
Academic publishers argue they add value to manuscripts by coordinating the peer-review process and editing manuscripts — but a new preliminary study suggests otherwise.
How does Jeremy Berg plan to address reproducibility in Science?
How does Jeremy Berg plan to address reproducibility in Science?
The former director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the U.S. National Institutes of Health has a new job. On July 1st, biochemist Jeremy Berg will take the helm as the editor-in-chief of Science.
"Evidence-based medicine has been hijacked:" A confession from John Ioannidis
John Ioannidis is perhaps best known for a 2005 paper “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.” One of the most highly cited researchers in the world, Ioannidis, a professor at Stanford, has built a career in the field of meta-research.
Fifth retraction for Voinnet follows correction
After correcting a paper due to problematic figure panels, researchers led by Olivier Voinnet have now retracted it.
64 more papers retracted for fake reviews, this time from Springer journals
Springer is pulling another 64 articles from 10 journals after finding evidence of faked peer reviews, bringing the total number of retractions from the phenomenon north of 230.
Fifth retraction for famous Robert Weinberg
Another domino has fallen in a chain of retractions for Robert Weinberg, the man who discovered the first tumor-causing gene in humans.
The Retraction Watch Leaderboard
Who has the most retractions? Here's the Retraction Watch list.
Former Columbia postdoc faked Alzheimer's research in Cell and Nature
The Cell paper has been cited 150 times, according to Web of Science, while the Nature paper has been cited 40. The Nature paper has not yet been retracted.
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