Academics: sTuDeNtS aRe CoMmItTiNg AcAdEmIc MiScOnDuCt!
Also Academics: https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/scientific-fraud-research-papers-b2802247.html

Academics: sTuDeNtS aRe CoMmItTiNg AcAdEmIc MiScOnDuCt!
Also Academics: https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/scientific-fraud-research-papers-b2802247.html
Huge collaboration of frauduent researchers discovered, leading to numerous retractions at Frontiers journals
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/07/29/frontiers-retract-122-articles-links-thousands-other-publishers-journals-to-unethical-network/
#Papermills #Frontiers #Retraction
#ThirdIron has just announced a nice advancement in #retraction notification. Now, data about articles which cite one or more retracted articles have been added to #LibKey.
If a paper cites one or more #retractedarticles, LibKey will display an interstitial screen indicating which #citations have been retracted.
https://mailchi.mp/thirdiron/three-annoucements-june-8111474?e=8bc18694c1
Trop gros, trop cher, trop moche..., le système de publications scientifiques est à bout de souffle. Un article de "niche" pour passer un bon été :https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2025/07/07/le-monde-des-revues-scientifiques-au-bord-de-l-asphyxie_6619660_1650684.html
(allez au bout car il y a des messages d'espoirs...)
et en bonus, un "appui" sur l'usage de l'IA qui n'arrange rien,
https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2025/07/07/comment-l-ia-bouscule-les-publications-scientifiques_6619655_1650684.html
#science #preprint #recherche #pci #pubpeer #matilda #openaccess #retraction
@BorisBarbour @enroweb @ElisabethBik
Do men or women retract more often? A new study weighs in – @Retractionwatch.com
"more papers are authored by men (but) men retract disproportionally more papers than women"
#retraction #gender
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/07/01/men-women-retractions-gender-retraction-ratio/
Update. New study: "Male first authors have higher #retraction rates, particularly for scientific misconduct such as plagiarism, authorship disputes, ethical issues, duplication, and fabrication/falsification. No significant gender differences were found in retractions attributed to mistakes."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S175115772500046X
‘Data manipulations’ alleged in study that paved the way for Microsoft’s quantum chip | Science Magazine
「 co-author Vincent Mourik had concerns when he saw drafts of the paper. Mourik, now at the Jülich Research Center, found signs that data had been cherry-picked to support the paper’s conclusions and began to question his co-authors more than a year before it was published 」
Linking #citation and #retraction #data reveals the demographics of scientific #retractions among highly cited #authors
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002999
Breaking news: #CDC orders mass #retraction and #revision of submitted #research across all #science and #medicine #journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. #MedicalEditors, please note. https://open.substack.com/pub/insidemedicine/p/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The demography of #retraction... Linking retractions to the top 2% most highly-cited scientists across science, @jeroenbaas &co show that scientists with retractions have younger publication age, higher self-citation rates & larger publication volumes #plosbiology https://plos.io/4aWNBpT
This has somehow slipped under my radar: "Controversial #COVID study that promoted unproven treatment retracted after four-year saga - Paper on #hydroxychloroquine led by French researcher Didier #Raoult is second-most-cited study ever to be withdrawn."
"Overall, the IHU now has 32 retracted papers — 28 of them authored by Raoult — and 230 other studies with expressions of concern."
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-04014-9 #IHU #HCQ #retraction #Marseille #AMU
‘WithdrarXiv’ database of 14,000 retracted preprints launches
Les #preprints peuvent aussi être rétractés #retraction
#aRxiv lance une base indexant les preprints qui ont été retirés de ses bases: + de 14000
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00011-8
Bullshit Hydroxychloroquine/COVID paper by misogynist dipshit Raoult has finally been pulled
Ben c'est pas trop tôt!
"Le Monde – Covid-19 : une étude fondatrice défendue par Didier Raoult sur l’usage de l’hydroxychloroquine invalidée"
https://www.lemonde.fr/sante/article/2024/12/17/covid-19-une-etude-fondatrice-defendue-par-didier-raoult-sur-l-usage-de-l-hydroxychloroquine-invalidee_6453981_1651302.html
#WithdrarXiv: A Large-Scale #Dataset for #Retraction Study
#Retraction handling by potential #predatory #journals
(published in 'Accountability in #Research’)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08989621.2024.2434245
Thanks to a helpful @pubpeer.com comment I just learned that this 2022 JCI Insight paper (in which I found concerns) was retracted in June this year because findings of misconduct at the University of Michigan. #Retraction insight.jci.org/articles/vie... pubpeer.com/publications...
Der Call for Papers #CfP für die @libreas Ausgabe #47 ist draußen. Diesmal gehts um das Thema Lug und Trug (im Wissenschaftssystem). #academicfraud #misconduct #retraction #predatorypublishing Wir freuen uns auf alle Beitragsformate Frist für Einreichungen ist der 30.04.2025. Gerne könnt ihr uns vorab schon mit eurer Idee oder einem Abstract kontaktieren #libreas
https://libreas.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/cfp-47-lug-und-trug-im-wissenschaftssystem/
I was reading an article in #LeMonde which referred to a couple of scientific papers. One of them was cited by its link to #PMC, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4857885/
However, #retractionWatch tells of the #retraction of this paper https://retractionwatch.com/2015/07/21/to-our-horror-widely-reported-study-suggesting-divorce-is-more-likely-when-wives-fall-ill-gets-axed/
On the #publisher's page, the only sign of the #retraction is a link on the side "Authors’ Explanation of the Retraction" and pdf file is not tagged in any way—it even has an "update" banner leading to this below.
Is this common??
@rebeccasear
"if their conclusions hinged on now-retracted results, they should be corrected or #retracted as appropriate”
The story I know of someone trying to correct a paper whose results were only partly affected by 3rd-party fault is not encouraging...
This was more than 10 years ago, but I'm not sure policies have much evolved, have they?