STOPDISINFORMATION4d ago

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

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/03/14/weekend-reads-replication-games-crossref-incorrect-citation-links-database-announcing-our-ctrl-z-award/

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 …

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TiggyMar 6

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.” "

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/03/05/publisher-demands-500-from-impersonated-author-to-retract-paper/

#RetractionWatch #Research

Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper

Last year, we wrote about a Walsh Medical Media journal that refused to withdraw an author’s paper unless he paid a fee — even though he didn’t write or submit the article. For one reader, some det…

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OrangenoelFeb 27

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. :)

https://centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/02/26/announcing-the-retraction-watch-research-accountability-reporting-fellowship/

Announcing the Retraction Watch Research Accountability Reporting Fellowship - The Center for Scientific Integrity

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 […]

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Laura J. WilkinsonFeb 27

Exclusive: Unrest at Wiley journal whose EIC is cited in more than half of its papers

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/02/26/exclusive-unrest-at-wiley-journal-whose-eic-is-cited-in-more-than-half-of-its-papers/

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Exclusive: Unrest at Wiley journal whose EIC is cited in more than half of its papers

Timothy Lee (center) of Macau University of Science and Technology was named editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Tourism Research in 2023. On Feb. 18, a researcher in Italy sent a disgr…

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ULB Münster › FachInfosFeb 26
"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 - Universitätsbibliothek TU Hamburg

Retraction Watch unterstützt dabei, zurückgezogene wissenschaftliche Artikel zu erkennen. In diesem Beitrag stellen wir den Service vor.

Universitätsbibliothek TU Hamburg
Universitätsbibliothek TUHHFeb 23

📄🔍 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/

Zitiert und nicht bemerkt? So hilft Retraction Watch, zurückgezogene Artikel zu finden - Universitätsbibliothek TU Hamburg

Retraction Watch unterstützt dabei, zurückgezogene wissenschaftliche Artikel zu erkennen. In diesem Beitrag stellen wir den Service vor.

Universitätsbibliothek TU Hamburg
Show threadZEVEDIFeb 9

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

Verantwortungsblog – Zentrum verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung

STOP DISINFORMATION DesinformaciónJan 22
Retractación en @Nature; ¿sanciones para las universidades con mayor retractación? Análisis de revistas PISS #RetractionWatch Profesor suspendido después de que una universidad japonesa encontrara resultados sospechosos en un artículo sobre sushi

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ooo5gjxccwb7ypsnifbgffn4/post/3mcowg2k7i3h2
STOP DISINFORMATION DesinformaciónJan 18
Exclusiva: En un cambio de postura, el exvicecanciller de Pakistán, exonerado por #plagio, enfrenta sanciones – #RetractionWatch retractionwatch.com/2025/12/15/e...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ooo5gjxccwb7ypsnifbgffn4/post/3ma46ucztplh2

Exclusive: In reversal, former...
STOPDISINFORMATIONJan 18
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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