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“That’s way too big to have that kind of effect,” Williams recalled thinking as his first impression of the study. “Because I love to procrastinate instead of continuing marking, I then looked up the paper and started reading it."
In the fall of 2024, Matt Williams was grading papers at Massey University in New Zealand when he noticed something off in a study one of his students had cited. The study, published in 2016, repor…
A Texas court has dismissed a lawsuit by a biochemist accused of research misconduct who claimed her former institution violated her due process rights during its investigation.
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Our Ivan Oransky speaks with the Friends of the National Library of Medicine.
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The entire editorial board of a semantics journal owned by Springer Nature has resigned to launch a new one, citing pressure from the company to increase their annual publication volume by 25%.
A toxicology journal has retracted a 16-year-old study linking hepatitis B vaccines to autism in children following an independent statistical review that found a half-dozen concerns with the study’s methodology.
A humanities journal has retracted an article about the controversial theory of parental alienation after receiving legal threats from a group that supports the concept.
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When a sociology researcher learned his article was accepted at a Taylor & Francis journal, he was surprised to find the journal had skipped the peer review process altogether.
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LittleBee80/iStock A humanities journal has retracted an article about the controversial theory of parental alienation after receiving legal threats from a group that supports the concept. On May …
If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Critics of birdsong study fight to be named in Nature’s retraction El…
For most researchers, having an article accepted comes with constructive feedback from editors and reviewers. But when a sociology researcher learned his article was accepted at a Taylor & Fran…
Credit: 12963734/iStock A Texas court has dismissed a lawsuit by a biochemist accused of research misconduct who claimed her former institution violated her due process rights during its investigat…
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If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Journal retracts paper criticizing parental alienation theory after g…
The new journal, Semantics of Natural Languages, launched in May. The entire editorial board of a semantics journal owned by Springer Nature has resigned to launch a new one, citing pressure from t…
A toxicology journal has retracted a 16-year-old study linking hepatitis B vaccines to autism in children following an independent statistical review that found a half-dozen concerns with the study…
