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Retraction Watch

Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process.

  • By Alison Abritis, Ellie Kincaid
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly five posts per week
  • First post on

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Most recent posts

Mega journal Cureus kicks out organizations critics called paper mills
The embattled mega journal Cureus has closed six of its so-called “academic channels,” which it bills as low-cost publication platforms that “will turn your organization into a publishing powerhouse,” Retraction Watch has learned. The move …
On , by Frederik Joelving, 694 words
‘Relieved’: BMJ retracts and replaces article on unexpected weight loss as a sign of cancer
Brian Nicholson The British Medical Journal has retracted an article examining when unexpected weight loss could be a warning sign of cancer after the authors found an error in their work. The journal published an …
On , by Ellie Kincaid, 976 words
Cancer specialist faked data in at least ten papers, VA and UCLA find
Alan Lichtenstein A multiple myeloma specialist “recklessly“ falsified data in at least 10 published articles, according to a joint investigation by the University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs …
On , by Ellie Kincaid, 1,049 words