#retractions — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #retractions, aggregated by home.social.
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#Authors, letting #LargeLanguageModels create #fake #references for you isn't going to make your #research #papers look authoritative. It might even lead to #retractions once #journals investigate what else in your articles might be #falsified. #LLMs #AI
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#Authors, letting #LargeLanguageModels create #fake #references for you isn't going to make your #research #papers look authoritative. It might even lead to #retractions once #journals investigate what else in your articles might be #falsified. #LLMs #AI
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#Authors, letting #LargeLanguageModels create #fake #references for you isn't going to make your #research #papers look authoritative. It might even lead to #retractions once #journals investigate what else in your articles might be #falsified. #LLMs #AI
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#Authors, letting #LargeLanguageModels create #fake #references for you isn't going to make your #research #papers look authoritative. It might even lead to #retractions once #journals investigate what else in your articles might be #falsified. #LLMs #AI
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New study: "In over 80% of cases the [tested] #LLMs claimed that a retracted article had not been retracted…LLMs have little ability to distinguish between valid and retracted studies, unless they are allowed to, and do, check online." arxiv.org/abs/2604.16872 #AI #Retractions #ScholComm
Do Large Language Models know ... -
New study: "In over 80% of cases the [tested] #LLMs claimed that a retracted article had not been retracted…LLMs have little ability to distinguish between valid and retracted studies, unless they are allowed to, and do, check online."
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Retraction Watch interview with Elizabeth Bik, who has a preturnatural ability to find duplicated images in different papers:
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Will 'AI-Assisted' #Journalists Bring Errors and #Retractions ?
Meet the "journalist" who "uploads press releases or analyst notes into #AI tools and prompts them to spit out #articles that he can edit and #publish quickly," according to the Wall Street Journal. "AI-assisted stories accounted for nearly 20% of Fortune's web traffic in the second half of 2025.
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Interesting case in which the usual issues surrounding the retraction of a journal article are further complicated by a NY state law criminalizing the distribution of information that endangers health.
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/04/02/judge-lawsuit-controversial-adolescents-paxil-study-329/PS: Apart from the specific issues raised by this case (whether a certain antidepressant is safe and effective for teenagers), I'm interested in this more general question: Do US journals have a #FirstAmendment right not to retract articles, regardless of the circumstances, for example, even when the articles have been shown to be false and harmful and even when local law prohibits the distribution of such information? Is "forced retraction" a kind of #censorship prohibited by the Constitution?
Before you comment, note that this cases raises a lot of important questions about our tolerance for harm. But I'm trying to raise a slightly different question about the interaction of scholarly norms and public law.
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📄🔍 Zurückgezogene Artikel zitieren, ohne es zu merken?
Retractions rechtzeitig zu erkennen ist gar nicht so einfach. Allein 2023 wurden weltweit mehr als 10.000 wissenschaftliche Artikel zurückgezogen. Mit Retraction Watch und dem Zotero-Plugin behält man den Überblick und erkennt Retractions direkt in der eigenen Literaturverwaltung.
#RetractionWatch #Retractions #Zotero #GuteWissenschaftlichePraxis #OpenScience #Openness
https://www.tub.tuhh.de/blog/2026/02/23/retraction-watch-zurueckgezogene-artikel/
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Somebody managed to wind their shorts into a painful twist for all.
"The Authors have retracted this Article as they could not reach agreement on data ownership. The data used in this study originated from the thesis work of the first author and was supervised by a researcher who is not listed as an author and who did not grant permission for the use of the data."
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Ars Technica: Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations. “That this happened at Ars is especially distressing. We have covered the risks of overreliance on AI tools for years, and our written policy reflects those concerns. In this case, fabricated quotations were published in a manner inconsistent with that policy. We have reviewed recent work and have not […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/16/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations-ars-technica/ -
Ars Technica: Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations. “That this happened at Ars is especially distressing. We have covered the risks of overreliance on AI tools for years, and our written policy reflects those concerns. In this case, fabricated quotations were published in a manner inconsistent with that policy. We have reviewed recent work and have not […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/16/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations-ars-technica/ -
Ars Technica: Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations. “That this happened at Ars is especially distressing. We have covered the risks of overreliance on AI tools for years, and our written policy reflects those concerns. In this case, fabricated quotations were published in a manner inconsistent with that policy. We have reviewed recent work and have not […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/16/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations-ars-technica/ -
Ars Technica: Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations. “That this happened at Ars is especially distressing. We have covered the risks of overreliance on AI tools for years, and our written policy reflects those concerns. In this case, fabricated quotations were published in a manner inconsistent with that policy. We have reviewed recent work and have not […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/16/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations-ars-technica/ -
Ars Technica: Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations. “That this happened at Ars is especially distressing. We have covered the risks of overreliance on AI tools for years, and our written policy reflects those concerns. In this case, fabricated quotations were published in a manner inconsistent with that policy. We have reviewed recent work and have not […]
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Can we trust “guidelines on how to write a scientific paper”? We analysed 71 “Write a Scientific Paper” guidelines that were widely used and cited for years as best practices.
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2026.2622096
Facts:
▪️ 555 citations
▪️ 48 papers carry an editorial expression of concern
▪️ 30 (42%) have been retracted!#AcademicPublishing #ResearchIntegrity #Retractions #ScholarlyCommunication #Bibliometrics #PublicationEthics #PeerReview
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New data suggest that just like regular journals (i.e., non-GlamMagz), also female authors really do seem to publish higher quality articles - which, consequently, leads to fewer #retractions for both:
https://bjoern.brembs.net/2026/01/retraction-data-are-still-useless-almost/
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Retraction data are still useless – almost
Retractions of scholarly articles are a rare event, affecting only about 0.02-0.04% of articles in total (but yearly rates are going up dramatically). This means that data about retractions are not even close to being representative of the scholarly literature at large. In particular, when the non-retracted literature contains anything from 40% to over 80% of unreliable work, even today's retraction rates of around 0.2% or so seem totally negligible, in the grand scheme of things. After all, […]https://bjoern.brembs.net/2026/01/retraction-data-are-still-useless-almost/
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A rare insight into COPE's Facilitation & Integrity Subcommittee: they helped guide a journal into engaging with an Austrian investigation, leading to a retraction.
It's usually unsung work, much of it done by volunteers from COPE council.
#CommitteeOnPublicationEthics #Retractions #PublicationEthics #Homeopathy
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#Elsevier finally (after 25 years) retracted the primary study concluding that #glyphosate is safe for humans. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in the #Roundup herbicide, manufactured by #Monsanto.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230099913715h/t @civodul.
https://fediscience.org/@civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr/115661046263238211Among the grounds for the retraction:
* "The article's conclusions…are solely based on unpublished studies from Monsanto."
* "Employees of Monsanto may have contributed to the writing of the article without proper acknowledgment as co-authors."
* "The authors may have received [undisclosed] financial compensation from Monsanto for their work on this article."Remember that in 2020, the #Trump #EPA "relied almost entirely on #Monsanto studies" to conclude that Roundup was safe.
https://x.com/petersuber/status/1224039859272212480In 2016, Monsanto made a show of sharing its research on glyphosate with the public. But instead of making it #OpenAccess, it put print copies in a room in Brussels, required registration to use the room, and then closed the room after two months.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190119214350/https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/ioy1fVqaLy1Two questions for follow up studies:
1. Why did Elsevier's 𝘙𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘛𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 need 25 years to retract this piece of Monsanto advertising?
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Women are first authors on 41-45% of biomedical publications between 2008 and 2017, but a study of 878 retracted biomedical publications found that women made up only 16.5% of first authors.
Summary: https://phys.org/news/2025-11-women-authors-retracted-medical-analysis.html
Original paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0335059
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“In my opinion, metric-based recognition without integrity screening can inadvertently legitimize problematic practices. That risk is particularly acute in environments where publication is tied to career progression but where research funding, infrastructure, and oversight remain weak. These conditions can – and often do – fuel paper mills, coercive citation policies, and other unethical behaviors.”
Maryam Sayab spoke to Frederik Joelving for Retraction Watch on Clarivate's involvement in Iraqi research awards being granted to individuals with known integrity concerns.
#Bibliometrics #Scientometrics #Citations #Retractions #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #Iraq #MENA #RetractionWatch
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The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis is seen as falling below contemporary standards for #ResearchEthics for its violations of informed consent and its disregard of the risks to participants.
This paper offers an interesting discussion of whether 19 derived papers should be retracted or receive an expression of concern:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17470161251353298#table1-17470161251353298 -
"Paper Retracts Claim That Suspected Kirk Killer Was ‘Left on Everything’
The Guardian ran and later corrected a piece on Tyler Robinson featuring a source that said they knew Robinson’s political beliefs.
The Guardian has retracted quotes from a source said to have known Tyler Robinson that claimed the alleged Charlie Kirk shooter was 'really leftist.'
The British publication ran an article on Friday outlining new information about Kirk’s alleged shooter delivered by Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, 50, and FBI Director Kash Patel, 45, during a press conference that morning. The paper included quotes from a source claiming to have attended high school with Robinson. The source claimed that Robinson was 'pretty left on everything' and 'the only member of his family that was, like, really leftist.'
The retraction comes amid intense speculation about Robinson’s motives for allegedly killing Kirk. Republican politicians and pundits initially laid blame for Kirk’s killing at the feet of Democrats, with some vowing retribution against the Left before a shooter was even apprehended.
This was not the only high-profile retraction made by a media outlet regarding the case. On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal published comments from cops working the Kirk case that stated etchings on the bullet casings recovered from the suspected murder weapon promoted 'transgender and antifascist ideology.'
The Journal later amended the piece, saying in an editor’s note, 'Justice Department officials later urged caution about the bulletin... saying it may not accurately reflect the messages on the ammunition.'
On Friday, the actual messages on the bullet casings were read aloud by Gov. Cox. One casing read 'Hey, fascist! Catch!', and the rest appear to be memes and video game references. None of them contained 'transgender ideology.'
Errors like these have aggravated social media users as the misinformation has amplified the Right’s moral panic against left-leaning social media users and 'trans mass shooters.'
Some have argued there is more evidence to suggest Robinson held extreme right-wing beliefs. Though Robinson is not a registered Republican or Democrat, he comes from a family of Republicans. Some suspect Robinson’s fluency with online culture, evident in the memes he allegedly scrawled on the bullet casings, suggest he was a 'Groyper,' or a radicalized follower of white nationalist and antisemitic influencer Nick Fuentes, who criticized and trolled Kirk from the right."
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Wake up, babe, new COPE guidelines just dropped!
Version 3 of the Retraction guidelines and brand new Expression of Concern guidelines are out now. I co-authored the long-awaited EoC guidelines and v.2 of the Retraction guidelines.
https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/expressions-concern
https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/retraction-guidelines#CommitteeOnPublicationEthics #Retractions #ExpressionsOfConcern #PublicationEthics #JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #ScholComm
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Modern Ghana: Weaponizing Retractions: It Is Time For Ghanaian Universities To Demand Accountability And Transparency From Authors And Publishers. “I argue that retractions should be guided by objective, transparent, and verifiable criteria. Each stated reason for a retraction ought to be measurable and supported by publicly available evidence, in line with rigorous, quantifiable standards – […]
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NEW Journal Article: Does #ChatGPT Ignore Article #Retractions and Other Reliability Concerns? https://www.infodocket.com/2025/08/05/journal-article-does-chatgpt-ignore-article-retractions-and-other-reliability-concerns/ #scholcomm #libraries #journals
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New study: "To test whether the results might sometimes include retracted research, we identified 217 retracted or otherwise concerning academic studies with high altmetric scores and asked #ChatGPT 4o-mini to evaluate their quality 30 times each. Surprisingly, none of its 6510 reports mentioned that the articles were retracted or had relevant errors."
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Update. #SpringerNature has now retracted this book.
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/07/16/springer-nature-to-retract-machine-learning-book-following-retraction-watch-coverage/Thanks to @retractionwatch for exposing it.
#AI #Hallucinations #Proofreading #Publishers #Retractions #ScholComm
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Three more @plosone.org #retractions for Jasti S Rao. I posted these in October 2019 under my pseudonym Lotus azoricus on PubPeer. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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#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
#retractions #discovery #transparency #scholcomm #publications #retractedpublications #research #researchethics
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#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
#retractions #discovery #transparency #scholcomm #publications #retractedpublications #research #researchethics
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#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
#retractions #discovery #transparency #scholcomm #publications #retractedpublications #research #researchethics
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#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
#retractions #discovery #transparency #scholcomm #publications #retractedpublications #research #researchethics
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#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
#retractions #discovery #transparency #scholcomm #publications #retractedpublications #research #researchethics
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EL PAÍS: Eleven studies by Spanish scientist Rafael Luque are retracted due to fraudulent practices. “On December 1, 2022, Luque was expelled from his university, Universidad de Córdoba, with a historic sanction. A new tool now exposes how he rose to the top and how he fell, eventually becoming honored in the Kremlin as ‘pro-Russian.’ Eleven studies of his have already been retracted for […]
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Gizmodo: Million-Dollar Project Aims to Expose Bad Medical Research. “The Center for Scientific Integrity just launched the Medical Evidence Project, a two-year effort to identify published medical research with a negative effect on health guidelines—and to make sure people actually hear about it. Equipped with a $900,000 grant from Open Philanthropy and a core team of up to five […]
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Wall Street Journal: MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper. ” The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday it can no longer stand behind a widely circulated paper on artificial intelligence written by a doctoral student in its economics program. The paper said that the introduction of an AI tool in a materials-science lab led to gains in new discoveries, […]
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"Clarivate has announced that, from 2025 (2024 data), citations to and from retracted articles will no longer contribute towards the Journal Impact Factor." - Research Information
https://www.researchinformation.info/news/clarivate-removes-citations-to-and-from-retracted-articles-from-jif/#ImpactFactor #JournalImpactFactor #Retractions #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #Citations #Bibliometrics
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Controversial COVID study that promoted unproven treatment retracted after four-year saga https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04014-9 #covid19 #Hydroxychloroquine #science #retractions
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New Slaw column piece by PKP Founder John Willinsky -- "Is it Time to Protect the Public Interest in Research?"
"Yet, I wish to raise a couple of recent turns that suggest it may be time to consider a measure of legal oversight around research misconduct that comes to light through retractions."
Check it out: https://www.slaw.ca/2025/03/18/is-it-time-to-protect-the-public-interest-in-research/
#Research #ResearchMisconduct #Retractions #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter
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#Repositories out of the Blind Spot of Initiatives to Correct the Scholarly Record
by Frédérique Bordignon
Learned Publishing, 2025, 38(2)https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.1655
#openscience #openaccess #metadata #integrity #openarchives #retractions #scholcomm
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📢 #Scientometric indicators in #research evaluation and research #misconduct: analysis of the Russian #university excellence initiative
👉 "The results showed that #RUEI #universities had a significantly higher number of retracted #publications in #WoS - and #Scopus -indexed #journals, suggesting that pressure to meet quantitative scientometric #indicators may have encouraged unethical research practices and #researchmisconduct."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-025-05269-3
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Among the World’s Top Researchers 10% Publish At Unrealistic Levels, Analysis Finds
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https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-worlds-top-researchers-10-publish-at-unrealistic-levels-analysis-finds/4020962.article <-- shared article
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https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2024.2445280 <-- shared paper
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[again, not my usual fare but interesting… the cartoon was added as a bit of facetious fun...]
#papers #publishing #research #publishorperish #metrics #fraud #retractions #academic #researchers #implausible #author #coauthor #newcomers #anomalous #metrics #inflation #career #quality #academia #unrealistic -
Among the World’s Top Researchers 10% Publish At Unrealistic Levels, Analysis Finds
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https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-worlds-top-researchers-10-publish-at-unrealistic-levels-analysis-finds/4020962.article <-- shared article
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https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2024.2445280 <-- shared paper
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[again, not my usual fare but interesting… the cartoon was added as a bit of facetious fun...]
#papers #publishing #research #publishorperish #metrics #fraud #retractions #academic #researchers #implausible #author #coauthor #newcomers #anomalous #metrics #inflation #career #quality #academia #unrealistic -
Among the World’s Top Researchers 10% Publish At Unrealistic Levels, Analysis Finds
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https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-worlds-top-researchers-10-publish-at-unrealistic-levels-analysis-finds/4020962.article <-- shared article
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https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2024.2445280 <-- shared paper
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[again, not my usual fare but interesting… the cartoon was added as a bit of facetious fun...]
#papers #publishing #research #publishorperish #metrics #fraud #retractions #academic #researchers #implausible #author #coauthor #newcomers #anomalous #metrics #inflation #career #quality #academia #unrealistic -
Among the World’s Top Researchers 10% Publish At Unrealistic Levels, Analysis Finds
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https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-worlds-top-researchers-10-publish-at-unrealistic-levels-analysis-finds/4020962.article <-- shared article
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https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2024.2445280 <-- shared paper
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[again, not my usual fare but interesting… the cartoon was added as a bit of facetious fun...]
#papers #publishing #research #publishorperish #metrics #fraud #retractions #academic #researchers #implausible #author #coauthor #newcomers #anomalous #metrics #inflation #career #quality #academia #unrealistic -
Among the World’s Top Researchers 10% Publish At Unrealistic Levels, Analysis Finds
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https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-worlds-top-researchers-10-publish-at-unrealistic-levels-analysis-finds/4020962.article <-- shared article
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https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2024.2445280 <-- shared paper
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[again, not my usual fare but interesting… the cartoon was added as a bit of facetious fun...]
#papers #publishing #research #publishorperish #metrics #fraud #retractions #academic #researchers #implausible #author #coauthor #newcomers #anomalous #metrics #inflation #career #quality #academia #unrealistic -
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
#research #ethics #publishing #misconduct #researchmisconduct #publications