#retractionwatch — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #retractionwatch, aggregated by home.social.
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AI Made Up a Science Term — Now It’s in Dozens of Papers https://www.byteseu.com/2203410/ #AIHallucinations #AIInScience #AITrainingData #Claude35 #DigitalFossils #GPT4o #KnowledgeIntegrity #OCRErrors #PaperRetractions #RetractionWatch #Science #ScientificPublishing
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Journal retracts paper criticizing #parentalalienation theory after receiving legal threats from a group that supports the concept
Parental alienation (#PA) refers to a mental condition in which a child allies with a preferred parent & rejects the other parent without justification. Supporters believe the condition is primarily due to manipulation of the child by the preferred parent & contend PA is a form of emotional child abuse -
RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@ORCID_Org/116641396465428683
"Science has a [...] set of infrastructure for handling identity, provenance, integrity, and discoverability. Systems like arXiv, DOIs, CrossRef, Datacite, ORCID, OpenAlex, ROR, Retraction Watch, and PubMed form a kind of collaborative exoskeleton for scientific publishing and by extension, for modern scientific knowledge. Much as Github has been adapted for AI development, this infrastructure needs to be adapted for AI use in science."
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RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@ORCID_Org/116641396465428683
"Science has a [...] set of infrastructure for handling identity, provenance, integrity, and discoverability. Systems like arXiv, DOIs, CrossRef, Datacite, ORCID, OpenAlex, ROR, Retraction Watch, and PubMed form a kind of collaborative exoskeleton for scientific publishing and by extension, for modern scientific knowledge. Much as Github has been adapted for AI development, this infrastructure needs to be adapted for AI use in science."
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RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@ORCID_Org/116641396465428683
"Science has a [...] set of infrastructure for handling identity, provenance, integrity, and discoverability. Systems like arXiv, DOIs, CrossRef, Datacite, ORCID, OpenAlex, ROR, Retraction Watch, and PubMed form a kind of collaborative exoskeleton for scientific publishing and by extension, for modern scientific knowledge. Much as Github has been adapted for AI development, this infrastructure needs to be adapted for AI use in science."
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RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@ORCID_Org/116641396465428683
"Science has a [...] set of infrastructure for handling identity, provenance, integrity, and discoverability. Systems like arXiv, DOIs, CrossRef, Datacite, ORCID, OpenAlex, ROR, Retraction Watch, and PubMed form a kind of collaborative exoskeleton for scientific publishing and by extension, for modern scientific knowledge. Much as Github has been adapted for AI development, this infrastructure needs to be adapted for AI use in science."
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RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@ORCID_Org/116641396465428683
"Science has a [...] set of infrastructure for handling identity, provenance, integrity, and discoverability. Systems like arXiv, DOIs, CrossRef, Datacite, ORCID, OpenAlex, ROR, Retraction Watch, and PubMed form a kind of collaborative exoskeleton for scientific publishing and by extension, for modern scientific knowledge. Much as Github has been adapted for AI development, this infrastructure needs to be adapted for AI use in science."
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A recent study highlights just how inexpensive and easy it is to purchase authorship in an academic paper. In some cases, it can be as little as $57.
#ResearchIntegrity #AcademicIntegrity #Plagiarism #RetractionWatch
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A recent study highlights just how inexpensive and easy it is to purchase authorship in an academic paper. In some cases, it can be as little as $57.
#ResearchIntegrity #AcademicIntegrity #Plagiarism #RetractionWatch
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Weekend reads: An alternative to the #impactfactor in China; the clinical trials of six ‘superretractors’; Retraction Watch goes to Capitol Hill – #RetractionWatch
China proposes a new way to measure academic influence in a departure from impact factor.”
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Could a national database of scientific misconduct rulings stop repeat offenders? – #RetractionWatch
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Weekend reads: ‘Don’t hate the replicator, hate the game’; Crossref finds 150K incorrect citation links in database; Announcing our Ctrl-Z award – #RetractionWatch
Economist discusses “internationally crowdsourced surveillance system, designed to keep social scientists honest”
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By Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi
Mary Childs
Jess Jiang
James Sneed
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Scammy research publishers. It is all about the money these days.
I hope people can afford to sue them."In a 2024 article in the Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Graham Kendall, the deputy vice chancellor at MILA University in Nilai, Malaysia, detailed possible connections between Walsh Medical Media and the publishing group OMICS. In 2019, OMICS was ordered to pay the U.S. government $50 million in 2019 for “unfair and deceptive practices.” "
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Scammy research publishers. It is all about the money these days.
I hope people can afford to sue them."In a 2024 article in the Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Graham Kendall, the deputy vice chancellor at MILA University in Nilai, Malaysia, detailed possible connections between Walsh Medical Media and the publishing group OMICS. In 2019, OMICS was ordered to pay the U.S. government $50 million in 2019 for “unfair and deceptive practices.” "
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If you were as irritated as I was when #RetractionWatch of all outlets uncritically linked to a sensationalist article celebrating Ulrike #Guerot of all people as a martyr - the conspiratorial academic convicted of #plagiarism by an actual court.
Well, then you now have the chance to do better. :)
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If you were as irritated as I was when #RetractionWatch of all outlets uncritically linked to a sensationalist article celebrating Ulrike #Guerot of all people as a martyr - the conspiratorial academic convicted of #plagiarism by an actual court.
Well, then you now have the chance to do better. :)
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"Zitiert und nicht bemerkt? So hilft Retraction Watch, zurückgezogene Artikel zu finden" erkärt @flohnsen im Blog der @tub:
https://www.tub.tuhh.de/blog/2026/02/23/retraction-watch-zurueckgezogene-artikel/
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"Zitiert und nicht bemerkt? So hilft Retraction Watch, zurückgezogene Artikel zu finden" erkärt @flohnsen im Blog der @tub:
https://www.tub.tuhh.de/blog/2026/02/23/retraction-watch-zurueckgezogene-artikel/
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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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📄🔍 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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Der Beitrag von Konstantin Schönfelder im ZEVEDI-Verantwortungsblog zeigt, warum das unter generativer KI eine neue Dringlichkeit bekommt: Ungekennzeichnete KI-Nutzung, Textartefakte wie „Regenerate Response“, erfundene Literaturangaben und ein Publikationsbetrieb, der solche Dinge teils offenbar durchwinkt.
Mehr zum ZEVEDI-Verantwortungsblog ⬇️
https://zevedi.de/verantwortungsblog/#ZEVEDI #VBlog #RetractionWatch #Wissenschaft #Publikationswesen
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Der Beitrag von Konstantin Schönfelder im ZEVEDI-Verantwortungsblog zeigt, warum das unter generativer KI eine neue Dringlichkeit bekommt: Ungekennzeichnete KI-Nutzung, Textartefakte wie „Regenerate Response“, erfundene Literaturangaben und ein Publikationsbetrieb, der solche Dinge teils offenbar durchwinkt.
Mehr zum ZEVEDI-Verantwortungsblog ⬇️
https://zevedi.de/verantwortungsblog/#ZEVEDI #VBlog #RetractionWatch #Wissenschaft #Publikationswesen
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Der Beitrag von Konstantin Schönfelder im ZEVEDI-Verantwortungsblog zeigt, warum das unter generativer KI eine neue Dringlichkeit bekommt: Ungekennzeichnete KI-Nutzung, Textartefakte wie „Regenerate Response“, erfundene Literaturangaben und ein Publikationsbetrieb, der solche Dinge teils offenbar durchwinkt.
Mehr zum ZEVEDI-Verantwortungsblog ⬇️
https://zevedi.de/verantwortungsblog/#ZEVEDI #VBlog #RetractionWatch #Wissenschaft #Publikationswesen
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Der Beitrag von Konstantin Schönfelder im ZEVEDI-Verantwortungsblog zeigt, warum das unter generativer KI eine neue Dringlichkeit bekommt: Ungekennzeichnete KI-Nutzung, Textartefakte wie „Regenerate Response“, erfundene Literaturangaben und ein Publikationsbetrieb, der solche Dinge teils offenbar durchwinkt.
Mehr zum ZEVEDI-Verantwortungsblog ⬇️
https://zevedi.de/verantwortungsblog/#ZEVEDI #VBlog #RetractionWatch #Wissenschaft #Publikationswesen
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Der neue Beitrag im ZEVEDI-Verantwortungsblog zeigt Konstantin Schönfelder, warum das unter generativer KI eine neue Dringlichkeit bekommt: Ungekennzeichnete KI-Nutzung, Textartefakte wie „Regenerate Response“, erfundene Literaturangaben und ein Publikationsbetrieb, der solche Dinge teils offenbar durchwinkt.
Mehr zum ZEVEDI-Verantwortungsblog ⬇️
https://zevedi.de/verantwortungsblog/#ZEVEDI #VBlog #RetractionWatch #Wissenschaft #Publikationswesen
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A retraction in Nature; penalties for ‘retraction hotspot universities? analysis of PISS journals #RetractionWatch
Professor suspended after #Japaneseuniversity finds fishy results in sushi paper
Sage journal retracts more than 40 papers over concerns with peer review, author contributions
Northwestern to pay $2.3 million for falsified research in NIH grants
@Nature retracts paper for #datamanipulation by Ph.D. student
Technobabble papers by professor & editor under scrutiny
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Thank you, #RetractionWatch, for all you do to try to keep #science and #scientists honest and to help bring about change! ⭐✨
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Thank you, #RetractionWatch, for all you do to try to keep #science and #scientists honest and to help bring about change! ⭐✨
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Exclusive: In reversal, former vice chancellor in Pakistan who was let off hook for #plagiarism faces sanctions – #RetractionWatch
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COPE’s involvement leads to retraction of paper on homeopathy for lung cancer –
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Conflict of Interest and financial disclosure policies of journals that publish weather and climate research."
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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‘The fall of a prolific science journal’; Clinical trials by ‘super-retractors’; ‘How to Study Things That May Not Exist’ – #RetractionWatch
The week at Retraction Watch featured:Iraqi journal suspected of coercion, two others dropped from major citation databases
Authors retract Nature paper projecting high costs of climate change
The case of the fake references in an ethics journal
Number of ‘unsafe’ publications by psychologist Hans Eysenck could be ‘high & far reaching‘ -
‘The fall of a prolific science journal’; Clinical trials by ‘super-retractors’; ‘How to Study Things That May Not Exist’ – #RetractionWatch
The week at Retraction Watch featured:Iraqi journal suspected of coercion, two others dropped from major citation databases
Authors retract Nature paper projecting high costs of climate change
The case of the fake references in an ethics journal
Number of ‘unsafe’ publications by psychologist Hans Eysenck could be ‘high & far reaching‘ -
You know all of those recent results showing glyphosate / RoundUp are dangerous?
And how some apologists retort "yeah well we have decades of data not showing harm"?
Turns out that old data that purportedly demonstrates safety was falsified!!!
https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/115644006415261401
#pesticides #glyphosate #retraction #retractionWatch #herbicide #gardening #Garden #toxicology
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You know all of those recent results showing glyphosate / RoundUp are dangerous?
And how some apologists retort "yeah well we have decades of data not showing harm"?
Turns out that old data that purportedly demonstrates safety was falsified!!!
https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/115644006415261401
#pesticides #glyphosate #retraction #retractionWatch #herbicide #gardening #Garden #toxicology
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This is very meta... essentially someone who is in the business of writing fake papers has written a fake paper criticizing Pubpeer and post publication peer review as being vulnerable to “misuse” and “hyper-skepticism.
#RetractionWatch #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #ScholarlyPublishing #PostPublicationReview #PubPeer #FakeScience #MetaScience #PeerReview #ScienceFraud
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This is very meta... essentially someone who is in the business of writing fake papers has written a fake paper criticizing Pubpeer and post publication peer review as being vulnerable to “misuse” and “hyper-skepticism.
#RetractionWatch #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #ScholarlyPublishing #PostPublicationReview #PubPeer #FakeScience #MetaScience #PeerReview #ScienceFraud
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This is very meta... essentially someone who is in the business of writing fake papers has written a fake paper criticizing Pubpeer and post publication peer review as being vulnerable to “misuse” and “hyper-skepticism.
#RetractionWatch #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #ScholarlyPublishing #PostPublicationReview #PubPeer #FakeScience #MetaScience #PeerReview #ScienceFraud
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This is very meta... essentially someone who is in the business of writing fake papers has written a fake paper criticizing Pubpeer and post publication peer review as being vulnerable to “misuse” and “hyper-skepticism.
#RetractionWatch #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #ScholarlyPublishing #PostPublicationReview #PubPeer #FakeScience #MetaScience #PeerReview #ScienceFraud
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A paper in #Science about "In vivo direct imaging of neuronal activity at high temporospatial resolution" - describing "a method that allows for direct imaging of neuronal activity by #fMRI"
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The retraction: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec1773
The paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh4340"In response to the concerns, we reanalyzed the data. Unfortunately, the additional results revealed unexpected MR signal characteristics and did not robustly support the original conclusions."
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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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“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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Some #Elsevier #journals may not be putting much effort into choosing #qualified #experts as #peer #reviewers. Some of them asked Ivan Oransky, MD, of the blog #RetractionWatch to review four different COVID-19 papers. Here’s what Oransky says: https://retractionwatch.com/2021/03/09/elsevier-journals-ask-retraction-watch-to-review-covid-19-papers/
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Some #Elsevier #journals may not be putting much effort into choosing #qualified #experts as #peer #reviewers. Some of them asked Ivan Oransky, MD, of the blog #RetractionWatch to review four different COVID-19 papers. Here’s what Oransky says: https://retractionwatch.com/2021/03/09/elsevier-journals-ask-retraction-watch-to-review-covid-19-papers/
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Retraction Note: Impact of domestic violence against pregnant women in Minia governorate, Egypt: a cross sectional study
"the study appears not to have been approved by the Institutional ethical committee of the Faculty of Medicine, Minia University."
https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-025-08392-4
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Retraction Note: Impact of domestic violence against pregnant women in Minia governorate, Egypt: a cross sectional study
"the study appears not to have been approved by the Institutional ethical committee of the Faculty of Medicine, Minia University."
https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-025-08392-4
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The RW Daily: #Iraqiuniversity, the University of Technology in Baghdad , forcing students to cite its journals to graduate. And primatologist settles lawsuit following contract mishandling.
#Coercivecitation is widespread in academia and can help boost the rankings of publications, institutions and individual researchers. The practice is considered unethical and may trigger heavy penalties.
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A closer look at the PubPeer discussions involving Esam Agamy (University of Sharjah Chancellor) reveals repeated concerns about duplicated images, reused data, and lack of corrective action.
PubPeer gives scientists and readers a chance to hold the record accountable — and these threads show why institutional response and editorial transparency matter.
Read and judge for yourself 👇
🔗 https://pubpeer.com/search?q=Esam+agamy#ResearchIntegrity #AcademicEthics #PubPeer #RetractionWatch #OpenScience
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También tenemos próximamente un webinar en español sobre los #metadatos de #RetractionWatch y cómo se integran en herramientas por la comunidad. Tendremos como invitado a José Ortega del IESA (CSIC), quien nos hablará sobre la herramienta RetractBase.
Registro: https://crossref.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_A2bNeuhwSQ2dHvSa-gTIug#/registration
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También tenemos próximamente un webinar en español sobre los #metadatos de #RetractionWatch y cómo se integran en herramientas por la comunidad. Tendremos como invitado a José Ortega del IESA (CSIC), quien nos hablará sobre la herramienta RetractBase.
Registro: https://crossref.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_A2bNeuhwSQ2dHvSa-gTIug#/registration