Chairman leaves post while investigating double dipping allegations; Fined Earth Scientist; prof claims someone else’s papers are hers – retraction watch

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Our list of withdrawn or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 199. There are now more than 31,000 revocations in our database – what now withdrawal warnings in. activated EndNote, Papers and Zotero. And have you seen our top list of the authors with the most redemptions lately?

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

• “LSU Health chairman is leaving during the investigation, denying double treatment.” The move follows on from reporting allegations by Retraction Watch.
• “Top German geoscientist fined after being charged with fraudulent expense reports.” More here.
• “Pay-to-Particulate Autism Stem Cell Paper Withdrawn.”
• Jonathan Pruitt “Removed from Canada 150 Chairs website, funding discontinued.”
• A professor in Turkey claims that another researcher’s work is theirs because their names are similar.
• In the latest “Hoax,” an education advocacy group checks the facts that a journal doesn’t have.
• “[W]We develop methods for manufacturing detection in biomedical research and show that machine learning can be used to detect fraud in large-scale omic experiments. “
• “Addressing the preprint dilemma.”
• “There are concerns in health science about systemic errors that could facilitate the production and dissemination of false or misleading scientific information.”
• “Former Temple U. Dean found guilty of falsifying data for national rankings.”
• “Court orders immediate reinstatement of those released” [University of Ibadan] Lecturer. “
• “There are many examples of waste in the entire research process, from the question to the completeness and transparency of communication and dissemination of the completed research.”
• “Find international bodies [Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology Vice Chancellor] guilty of plagiarism. “
• “More transparency in the peer review process will help researchers study peer review and improve its quality and fairness.”
• “The university dean’s article was withdrawn on allegations of plagiarism.”
• “If your default position is disbelief and discounting and your thumb is always on one side of the scales, you are in danger of making a mistake.”
• “Can we recognize these, one could call them negative results, as important publications?”
• “Bullciting” and “Obfusciting”: “Citations and the Ethics of Credit”.
• “Human geneticists restrict the use of the term ‘race’ in their work.”
• “The public universities are still plagued by plagiarism.”
• Paul Ginsparg from arXiv and Brian Nosek from the Center For Open Science win first prize in two categories from the Einstein Foundation for the promotion of quality in research.
• Elisabeth Bik received the John Maddox Prize “for advocating science despite harassment, intimidation and legal proceedings”.
• “Editor of [social sciences and humanities] Journals preferred the advantages of an anonymous peer review over an open peer and recognized the power they have in the publication process … “
• Leading breeder of research beagles awarded by animal welfare inspectors. “
• A look at retractions in eye research using the Retraction Watch Database.
• “Therefore, the guidelines for reporting in journals are not in themselves a quick fix for correcting deficiencies in the documentation of biomedical resources …”
• “Withholding the identity of the principal researcher only partially closes the success gap between white and African-American or black researchers in NIH grant applications.”
• A skeptic exposes a reincarnation story.
• We want to hire a full-time editor in 2022, explains our Ivan Oransky in a letter to the editor. Can you help us get funding?

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