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Retraction Watch story exposing research factory fuels investigations, preprint withdrawals, termination
7+ hour, 23+ min ago (287+ words) A preprint server has withdrawn three papers by an author at the center of a Retraction Watch story revealing a prolific research factory operated through the WhatsApp messaging system. On July 24, Research Square, a preprint server owned by Springer Nature,…...
Exclusive: News outlet killed story on plagiarism allegations after Cambridge prof hired law firm
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (1399+ words) In September 2025, Times Higher Education had a bombshell story in the works: A star sociology professor at the University of Cambridge had allegedly plagiarized parts of his Ph.D. thesis and several journal articles. In one of the articles, the borrowed…...
Exclusive: Medical student in Nepal behind busy research factory
1+ week, 3+ day ago (990+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. A second-year medical student in Nepal is at the center of an international research network churning out everything from systematic reviews and meta-analyses…...
Weekend reads: Private info in ‘most’ arXiv preprints; why did George Church decline authorship; 28 misconduct cases in China
1+ week, 6+ day ago (272+ words) Retraction Watch Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at…...
Sage retracts eight papers by former Radboud ‘rising star’ for compromised peer-review process
2+ week, 3+ day ago (325+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. The publisher Sage has retracted eight papers by a former “rising star” from a Dutch university for a “compromised” peer-review process at a…...
A student claimed to have a Ph.D. in at least eight letters to journals. Two have been retracted.
2+ week, 4+ day ago (407+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. This past year, Zhihao Lei has signed his name to at least 35 letters to the editor of medical journals, weighing in on topics…...
Ethics journal retracts paper by high school student for AI, peer review manipulation
4+ week, 1+ day ago (409+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. The Journal of Medical Ethics has retracted a paper on the use of AI in the pharmaceutical industry for containing references that don’t…...
Economist outs another Indian university’s rankings-boosting scheme when they refuse to pay him
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (624+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. On May 9, a university administrator in Afghanistan threatened in a LinkedIn post to expose what he called a publishing scam by private universities…...
Aashna Miharia and Lauren Ng
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (134+ words) Retraction Watch Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. In the fall of 2024, Matt Williams was grading papers at Massey University in New Zealand when he noticed something off in…...
In what EIC calls an ‘honest mistake,’ journal approves paper without peer reviewing it
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (545+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. For most researchers, having an article accepted comes with constructive feedback from editors and reviewers. But when a sociology researcher learned his article…...