Retraction Watch
Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
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Bioengineered retracts 119 more papers as investigation continues
Bioengineered retracted 119 papers in October amid investigations into suspected paper mill activity and other integrity-related concerns at the Taylor & Francis journal. Clarivate delisted Bioengineered from its Web of Science platform in May 2025, after placing it on hold a…
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Computing journal retracts 13 papers, including four from past EIC
An Elsevier journal on computer applications in biomedicine has retracted 13 papers — including four by a former editor-in-chief — for suspicious authorship changes and erroneous citations. The articles were published in Computers in Biology and Medicine from 2019 to 2023. The…
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Weekend reads: Mega-journal on hold at PubMed; 1,400 retractions in one day; ‘I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper’
If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 68,000 retractions. Our…
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Scientific Reports on hold in PubMed while NLM reevaluates journal
The National Library of Medicine has stopped indexing articles from Scientific Reports in MEDLINE because the journal’s inclusion in the world’s largest biomedical library is under review, Retraction Watch has learned. “Following its significant growth in recent years,…
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Springer Nature journal could lose registry standing for clearing author of duplication
A Springer Nature journal’s failure to find duplication in two papers by the same author could cost its official recognition as a scholarly publication in Norway. The national register in Norway that decides which journals count toward academics’ publication records has…
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Federal U.S. judge tosses $1 billion defamation lawsuit against Elsevier
A district judge has ended a $1 billion defamation case against Elsevier over a study about air purification technology after concluding the plaintiff’s evidence was too weak to take to trial. Global Plasma Solutions, which makes air quality products, sued Elsevier in 2022 after…
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Game theory society yanks support for journal after Elsevier fails to renew EIC contract
The Game Theory Society is severing ties with one of its official journals. The move comes two months after the journal’s editors resigned because Elsevier failed to renew the contract for the journal’s editor-in-chief. The society released a statement on October 9 announcing it…
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Another Sydney investigation of astrophysicist leads to retractions
The University of Sydney has once again investigated the work of a former research fellow in its physics department, this time resulting in the retraction of two papers over concerns that data in several figures were likely fabricated. In September, the Journal of Geophysical…
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Weekend reads: Journals and the ‘Mathpocalypse’; autism paper earns EOC; Cell Press investigating bribery allegations
If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 67,000 retractions. Our…
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Journal updates retraction notice as Princeton student author stays in the spotlight
A Wiley journal has corrected a retraction notice to clarify the author, a Princeton student, never conducted the study in the first place, as the student has gained publicity for visits to the offices of Texas Congressional delegation. The paper, by Rishika Porandla,…
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Thousands of research studies violate journal policies on collaborations between editors and authors
Over 10,000 peer-reviewed papers from two publishers breach journal policies about past collaborations between handling editors and authors, a new analysis has found. The work — presented October 15 at the 26th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Frisco, Texas —…
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Journal founded by plastic surgeon touts studies of products he’s tied to – including one that has been retracted
In a February 2018 editorial, Rod Rohrich, a plastic surgeon and the former president of the World Association of Medical Editors, blasted predatory journals for “the damage that these illegitimate open access journals do to the reputation of legitimate, credible ones.” Two…