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Elsevier retracts the least and reinstates the most, new analysis finds
1+ hour, 33+ min ago (768+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. While Elsevier outcompetes other publishers in terms of sheer volume, it also has the lowest retraction rate and highest rate of reinstating articles…...
Weekend reads: FDA blocked vaccine findings; "Frankencitations Ravage the Academic Countryside; "Publish and Perish
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (303+ words) Retraction Watch Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. If your week flew by " we know ours did " catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at…...
One in 277 Pub Med-indexed papers in 2026 shows fabricated references, says analysis
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (607+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2. 5 million papers published as a…...
Russian news outlets hailed a cancer breakthrough, but the retraction went unnoticed
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (631+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. But four years later, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, the journal that had published the paper, retracted it." But in statements to Retraction…...
Weekend reads: A retraction for top cancer researcher; paper mill ads paired to IEEE proceedings; about that study on Chat GPT and learning
1+ week, 2+ day ago (259+ words) Retraction Watch Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. If your week flew by " we know ours did " catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at…...
NEJM retracts case study for AI-manipulated imagery
1+ week, 2+ day ago (341+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. The New England Journal of Medicine has retracted a clinical image with a picture the authors admit was manipulated with artificial intelligence. The…...
Are AI chatbots infiltrating online survey data? Not yet, says new study
1+ week, 3+ day ago (763+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. Despite concerns some have raised about potentially compromised data, AI chatbots aren't yet completing online research surveys widely, according to a new preprint....
Black marks on published papers don't change citation rates, new study finds
1+ week, 6+ day ago (355+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. Neither retractions, expressions of concern, nor other editorial notices seem to keep authors from continuing to cite problematic papers, according to a look…...
Journal goes dark after impersonating Eric Topol and others
2+ week, 3+ day ago (483+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. Within hours of researchers from prestigious institutions discovering they were listed as authors on a fabricated paper, the website for the journal and…...
Buying a first author slot can cost you anywhere from $56 to $5, 600
2+ week, 3+ day ago (580+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. The market for fake authorship on a research paper has prices to match every budget, according to a new dataset compiled from thousands…...