So much of what is published is corrupt

Weekend reads: Retractions at Columbia; retractions for a rector; the early days of peer review

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Journal pulls pesticide article a year after authors engaged lawyer to fight retraction decision
• Springer Nature journal has retracted over 200 papers since September
• Psychology journal apologizes for paper with ‘biased language’ about Tibet
• Plagiarizing papers retracted from engineering journal after Retraction Watch report

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 50,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):

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