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Our webinar series returns next month with a roundtable on #retractions and #ResearchIntegrity! Join us Aug 13 and 20 (11 am EDT) to get the latest on retractions and strategies to address them. As always, NISO webinars are free to all staff at member organizations: https://niso.org/events/retractions-and-research-integrity-part-one

#men #women #research #retractions

"...the researchers found no difference when looking at papers retracted due to mistakes. However, men had higher rates of retraction for misconduct, especially plagiarism and authorship issues."

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/07/01/men-women-retractions-gender-retraction-ratio/

Retraction Watch: Do men or women retract more often? A new study weighs in. “When you look at retracted papers, you find more men than women among the authors. But more papers are authored by men than women overall. A recent study comparing retraction rates, not just absolute numbers, among first and corresponding authors confirms that men retract disproportionally more papers than women.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/02/retraction-watch/

Like many of us in the Northern Hemisphere, our webinar series is taking a break in July! 🏖️ We'll be back on August 13 and 20 with a two-parter on #retractions and #ResearchIntegrity. NISO webinars are free for all staff at member organizations: https://niso.org/events/upcoming

EL PAÍS: Eleven studies by Spanish scientist Rafael Luque are retracted due to fraudulent practices. “On December 1, 2022, Luque was expelled from his university, Universidad de Córdoba, with a historic sanction. A new tool now exposes how he rose to the top and how he fell, eventually becoming honored in the Kremlin as ‘pro-Russian.’ Eleven studies of his have already been retracted for […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/12/el-pais-eleven-studies-by-spanish-scientist-rafael-luque-are-retracted-due-to-fraudulent-practices/

Gizmodo: Million-Dollar Project Aims to Expose Bad Medical Research. “The Center for Scientific Integrity just launched the Medical Evidence Project, a two-year effort to identify published medical research with a negative effect on health guidelines—and to make sure people actually hear about it. Equipped with a $900,000 grant from Open Philanthropy and a core team of up to five […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/09/gizmodo-million-dollar-project-aims-to-expose-bad-medical-research/

Wall Street Journal: MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper. ” The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday it can no longer stand behind a widely circulated paper on artificial intelligence written by a doctoral student in its economics program. The paper said that the introduction of an AI tool in a materials-science lab led to gains in new discoveries, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/17/wall-street-journal-mit-says-it-no-longer-stands-behind-students-ai-research-paper/

"Clarivate has announced that, from 2025 (2024 data), citations to and from retracted articles will no longer contribute towards the Journal Impact Factor." - Research Information
https://www.researchinformation.info/news/clarivate-removes-citations-to-and-from-retracted-articles-from-jif/

#ImpactFactor #JournalImpactFactor #Retractions #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #Citations #Bibliometrics

Former #cancer researcher who sued #university for #discrimination hits 35 #retractions

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/05/02/jasti-rao-illinois-cancer-researcher-oncogene-retractions/

• Guidance on issues (e.g., dual #publication, duplicate publication, #retractions, #authorship, #ConflictsOfInterest, #plagiarism, #confidentiality): https://publicationethics.org/guidance #COPE (3/4)

➡️ Why RFK Jr.’s pick for a vaccine-autism review may be familiar to Retraction Watch readers - hmm? It wouldn’t be because he’s had to make so many retractions would it? Find out from “Retraction Watch”, the authority on the subject. #science #RFKjr #RFKjrAntiScience #vaccines #research #retractions https://retractionwatch.com/2025/03/27/david-geier-retractions-autism-vaccines-rfk-hhs-cdc/

#ChatGPT est alimenté par des articles inexistants et des articles rétractés | Rédaction Médicale et Scientifique
"des IAg sont utilisées pour le peer-review"
#retractions #artificialintelligence
https://www.redactionmedicale.fr/2025/03/chatgpt-est-alimente-par-des-articles-inexistants-et-des-articles-retractes

Controversial COVID study that promoted unproven treatment retracted after four-year saga https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04014-9 #covid19 #Hydroxychloroquine #science #retractions

New Slaw column piece by PKP Founder John Willinsky -- "Is it Time to Protect the Public Interest in Research?"

"Yet, I wish to raise a couple of recent turns that suggest it may be time to consider a measure of legal oversight around research misconduct that comes to light through retractions."

Check it out: https://www.slaw.ca/2025/03/18/is-it-time-to-protect-the-public-interest-in-research/

#Research #ResearchMisconduct #Retractions #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter

Last year, we found that @OpenAlex was mistakenly marking some papers as retracted—misleading researchers. We @hauschke reported the issue, posted a preprint in March 2024, and… #OpenAlex fixed it almost instantly! 👏

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515251322478

Meanwhile, our peer-reviewed paper on this? Published today - over a year later. See the difference? Preprints matter. Open science works.

#OpenScience #Preprints #Retractions #AcademicPublishing

Hauschke, C., & Nazarovets, S. (2025). (Non-)retracted academic papers in OpenAlex. Journal of Information Science, January 2022, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515251322478

#Repositories out of the Blind Spot of Initiatives to Correct the Scholarly Record

by Frédérique Bordignon
Learned Publishing, 2025, 38(2)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.1655

#openscience #openaccess #metadata #integrity #openarchives #retractions #scholcomm

📢 #Scientometric indicators in #research evaluation and research #misconduct: analysis of the Russian #university excellence initiative

👉 "The results showed that #RUEI #universities had a significantly higher number of retracted #publications in #WoS - and #Scopus -indexed #journals, suggesting that pressure to meet quantitative scientometric #indicators may have encouraged unethical research practices and #researchmisconduct."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-025-05269-3

#retractions #researchintegrity #Russia

The International Association of STM Publishers Content Update Signaling & Alert Protocol addresses a critical gap by ensuring institutional repositories stay up-to-date with #retractions, corrections, and other changes. A pilot demonstrator is in development to provide automated alerts and mitigate the risk of outdated or inaccurate information in the age of #OpenAccess. #ResearchIntegrity 📹 https://youtu.be/4TB9OPIhG5c