A PhD in paper mills? https://retractionwatch.com/2025/05/01/phd-paper-mills-wiley-leiden-springer-nature/
This #RetractionWatch piece is about a PhD position we have at @cwts for a project on paper mills.
For more info, see https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/advancing-our-understanding-of-systematic-manipulation-paper-mills-wiley-cwts-partnership.
Deadline for applying is May 13.
Join us May 9 for an overview of the #RetractionWatch data now available in the Crossref REST API! We'll cover data collection, access, and why it's important for researchers, publishers, and institutions. We'll share a community example from Guillaume Cabanac on how the Problematic Paper Screener uses the Crossref/RW data. Register now: https://crossref.zoom.us/webinar/register/6817458365518/WN_QQBOTI8SSoK7rGiiDY1mUw
Great read
"Why RFK Jr.’s pick for a vaccine-autism review may be familiar to Retraction Watch readers"
"While there’s irony in the retraction of a paper on conflicts of interest for issues with conflicts of interest, the key part of that story is that the journal replaced it with a new version of the paper with an updated conflict of interest statement and changes throughout — and this paper remains intact. "
#retractionWatch #RFK #vaccine #antivax #AcademicChatter
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/03/27/david-geier-retractions-autism-vaccines-rfk-hhs-cdc/
Academic publishing is a multibillion-dollar industry. It’s not always good for science
Great piece in the conversation
Where did all the AI experts come from? They used to be virologists…😆 😜
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02287-w
#AI #MachineLearning #AcademicPublishing #Retraction #RetractionWatch #ScientificIntegrity #InterdisciplinaryScience #COVID
They rejected his manuscript, then he saw it published by other authors. https://retractionwatch.com/2025/03/06/peer-reviewer-publishes-mistake-manuscript-rejected/ #scientificLiterature #retractionwatch
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Fraud in science? Ivan Oransky shares a case of research misconduct that rocked the field. Get the full story: https://qspace.fqxi.org/podcasts/123/2025.02.18 #ScienceIntegrity #RetractionWatch
Fancy science journal caught publishing nonsense term "vegetative electron microscopy," doubles down
"As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends its use"
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/
Retraction Watch is #hiring for their Sleuth in Residence Program https://retractionwatch.com/2025/01/02/introducing-the-retraction-watch-sleuth-in-residence-program/
#FediHiring #getFediHired #Science #Sciences #ethics #RetractionWatch
You'll want to read, in the journal Nature, about Anna Abalkina, who risked her career to expose publication fraud and worked with #RetractionWatch to create the Hijacked Journal Checker. Abalkabina is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03894-1 (You can set up a free account with the journal Nature to have full access to the article.)
Wonderful! Anna Abalkina & the #RetractionWatch blog have put together the Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker. This will help #publishers and #authors who don't want legitimate, high-quality #research #articles ending up in #hijacked #journals. https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-hijacked-journal-checker/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ak985WGOgGbJRJbZFanoktAN_UFeExpE/edit#gid=364865985
#Retraction handling by potential #predatory #journals
(published in 'Accountability in #Research’)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08989621.2024.2434245
#ScholComm #integrity #publishing #retractions #predatoryjournals #RetractionWatch #WoS #qualitycontrol
the number of works in @wikidata that are annotated as retracted (think #RetractionWatch) has grown to 21 thousand (https://scholia.toolforge.org/statistics).
The number of works citing retracted articles has grown to 295 thousand (https://w.wiki/CA2T)
That means that the number known authors (wikidata:P50) has grown to 186 thousand (https://w.wiki/CA2V)
That is 186,384 researchers that need to decide how the retraction affects their own work.
Concerned about the person Drumpf wants as US secretary of health (RFK Jr.)? Read this article from #RetractionWatch about #Salon's retraction of that person's controversial story about an #alleged link between #autism and #thimerosal. https://tinyurl.com/y67yzf6n
so this company "Flow Science" in the US searched for papers that cited their software, cross referenced the authors with their customer list. they tried to shake down some authors in India -- which has very different intellectual property laws than the US -- who pirated the software by offering them 'retroactive licenses.' when they wouldn't pay, Flow Science contacted Elsevier to have the paper retracted, which they did. Elsevier then claims that "it is the journal's responsibility to ensure that pirated software isn't used" as if they didn't own the journal. Right.
Why does it take soooo long???
#academicpublishing #retractionwatch #academicchatter
‘All the red flags’: Scientific Reports retracts paper sleuths called out in open letter – Retraction Watch
https://retractionwatch.com/2024/11/11/all-the-red-flags-scientific-reports-retracts-paper-sleuths-called-out-in-open-letter/
Just added another article to my group library about primary care research:
"The trend and ripple effects of retractions in primary health care: A bibliometric analysis", found via #RetractionWatch
https://www.zotero.org/groups/2605026/primary_care_research/items/4IH7ENU5/item-list
eLife latest in string of major journals (also includes STOTEN) put on hold from Web of Science #Retractionwatch
1 in 7 scientific papers is fake, suggests study that author calls ‘wildly nonsystematic’ https://retractionwatch.com/2024/09/24/1-in-7-scientific-papers-is-fake-suggests-study-that-author-calls-wildly-nonsystematic/
