Judge upholds 15-year debarment against scientist who once threatened to sue Retraction Watch
iStock An appeals judge has recommended the U.S. Health and Human Services uphold a proposed 15-year debarment for a scientist accused of research misconduct more than a decade ago. In a May …
Publisher to retract entire conference proceedings, ban editor who wrote most of them
EPJ Web of Conferences will retract the entire volume of conference proceedings for ICEMR 2025. On Monday, we published a story about a physicist in India who had three papers on superheavy element…
Physicists flag over 50 papers on superheavy elements, leading to 3 retractions
A physicist in India has accumulated three retractions and 13 expressions of concern for papers on superheavy elements after three researchers in the field began to flag issues with his work. …
Guest post: A call to end the ‘impact on conclusions’ test for retraction
The Ship of Theseus paradox asks, if you replace all the wood in a ship, is it still the same ship? Likewise, is it possible to change all the facts inside an article without altering its conclusio…
Weekend reads: How to buy a scientific paper; creating responsible authorship culture; sanction authors for hallucinated references?
If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: University of Melbourne opens formal investigation into education res…
Technology journal pulls papers for unauthorized author changes, fictitious emails
An Elsevier energy-technology journal has retracted six papers from 2022 whose authors changed without editorial approval during revision of the manuscripts. The authors also provided fictitious em…
Most editors at math journal resign over multiple reviews, ‘cloak-and-dagger’ removal of EIC
Nearly two dozen editors of a mathematics journal have resigned after its publisher removed the top editor and implemented a multiple review system, “running roughshod over the standard practices o…
University of Melbourne opens formal investigation into education researcher John Hattie
John Hattie The University of Melbourne has opened a formal investigation into the prominent Australia-based education researcher John Hattie, backtracking on a decision months ago that concerns ab…
Weekend reads: ‘Don’t hate the replicator, hate the game’; Crossref finds 150K incorrect citation links in database; Announcing our Ctrl-Z award
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 …
Embattled journal brand mistakenly invites out-of-scope researchers to join board
Springer Nature has launched a new agriculture journal under the troubled Cureus brand. As part of its launch, the publisher invited at least one researcher with irrelevant specialities to join its…
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