https://retractionwatch.com/2026/04/09/could-a-national-database-of-scientific-misconduct-rulings-stop-repeat-offenders/
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”
ET
By Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi
Mary Childs
Jess Jiang
James Sneed
Emma Peaslee

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Stolen economics study retracted following Retraction Watch coverage …
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.” "
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. :)

Retraction Watch and The Open Notebook are thrilled to announce a new fellowship program funded by The Center for Scientific Integrity. This six-month program will equip up to six reporters and editors at local newsrooms to report stories of scientific integrity unfolding at research universities or institutions in their areas. The scientific process is designed […]
Exclusive: Unrest at Wiley journal whose EIC is cited in more than half of its papers
📄🔍 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/
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/
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