(28 Aug 2024) In January, a review paper1 about ways to detect human illnesses by examining the eye appeared in a conference proceedings published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in New York City. But neither its authors nor its editors noticed that 60% of the papers it cited had already been retracted.…
(9 May 2024) Prof. Dr. Vo Xuan Vinh, who is ranked 8th among 47 Vietnamese people in the ‘top most influential scientists in the world’, is the author of an article that was just removed by an international magazine. Prof. Dr. Vo Xuan Vinh is “Vietnam’s leading economic researcher”, one of four Vietnamese people…
(16 Feb 2024) The images, created with Midjourney, feature misspelled labels like ‘dck’ and ‘testtomcels.’ In its apology, the journal, Frontiers, gives a weak explanation for what happened. The paper, titled “Cellular functions of spermatogonial stem cells in relation to JAK/STAT signaling pathway,” was published on Feb. 13, 2024, and promptly made the rounds…
(12 Feb 2024) Universities must declare all their retractions and launch investigations into misconduct cases; a Nature analysis reveals that since 2021 there have been more than 17,000 retractions with Chinese co-authors. Chinese universities are days away from the deadline to complete a nationwide audit of retracted research papers and probe of research misconduct. By 15…
The number of articles being retracted rose sharply this year. Integrity experts say that this is only the tip of the iceberg. (12 Dec 2023) The number of retractions issued for research articles in 2023 has passed 10,000 — smashing annual records — as publishers struggle to clean up a slew of sham papers and…
(12 Oct 2023) A recent bibliometric study of article retractions in the technology field from developing countries reveals that the number of retractions has increased over the past 20 years, with an annual growth rate of 20.79%. Authored by Metwaly Eldakar at Minia University in Egypt and Ahmed Shehata at Sultan Qaboos University in…
(8 Nov 2022) The publishing giant Elsevier is withdrawing around 500 fake conference papers from one of its materials science journals, Retraction Watch reports. Many of the manuscripts published in Materials Today: Proceedings are off-topic, incomprehensible to the point of nonsense or seem to have been written by software. They all seem to have come from conferences that never happened,…
University of Wollongong epidemiologist Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz speaks with The Scientist about his team’s finding that flawed and fraudulent COVID-19 research continues to be cited. (14 Jul 2022) Retraction, a process in which a journal withdraws research after publication, is an essential tool for pruning flawed or fraudulent studies from the scientific literature. But a…
(31 January 2022) Today’s newsletter discusses how LibKey has been enhanced with Retraction Watch data to help prevent retracted articles from being cited. The Third Iron Newsletter has the full story here.
(2 Feb 2021) Citing retracted papers can be legitimate, if it’s clearly acknowledged in the text that the cited paper has been retracted. But this is usually not the case. Nature Index highlights the issue and presents some tools that may help researchers and publishers checking retraction articles from citations. Read more from…