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
LittleBee80/iStock A humanities journal has retracted an article about the controversial theory of parental alienation after receiving legal threats from a group that supports the concept. On May …
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''Black marks on published papers don’t change citation rates, new study finds'' by Retraction Watch
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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.
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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.”
If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Scientist who alleged COVID cover-up circulated a faked NIH email, ag…
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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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.” "
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