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https://bsky.app/profile/retractionwatch.com/post/3mkiqrwlees2r
Published: April 27, 2026 18:57
Neither retractions, expressions of concern, nor other editorial notices seem to keep authors from continuing to cite problematic papers, according to a look at what happened to more than 170 articles by one author.…
https://bsky.app/profile/retractionwatch.com/post/3mkcutwxe7k2y
Published: April 25, 2026 10:54
Weekend reads: What paper mills charge for author slots; UK Biobank data breached; what researchers think of the future of science…
https://bsky.app/profile/retractionwatch.com/post/3mk6yfzrtws2o
Published: April 23, 2026 21:47
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Buying a first author slot can cost you anywhere from $56 to $5,600, according to a new dataset collected by @reeserichardson.bsky.social, Spencer Hong and @abalkina.bsky.social.…
https://bsky.app/profile/retractionwatch.com/post/3mk6rmnnkv22m
Published: April 23, 2026 19:45
Journal goes dark after impersonating @erictopol.bsky.social and others
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/04/23/eric-topol-ellinger-publishing-media-journal-digital-health-impersonation/
https://bsky.app/profile/retractionwatch.com/post/3mk5stdkki22o
Published: April 23, 2026 10:34
A chemist in Austria who earned a retraction earlier this year is under investigation by his former university, a national research integrity agency and the publisher Elsevier, Retraction Watch has learned.…
https://bsky.app/profile/retractionwatch.com/post/3mk3zdmmyck24
Published: April 22, 2026 17:25
"Based on titles and abstracts, in over 80% of cases the LLMs claimed that a retracted article had not been retracted (GPT OSS 120B: 82%; Gemma 3 27B: 84%; DeepSeek R1 72B: 88%)."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16872
https://bsky.app/profile/retractionwatch.com/post/3mjzxplhxwk24
Published: April 21, 2026 21:51
An author in China with nearly 500 preprints has continued to add his daughter’s name to papers – despite her insistence she was not involved.
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/04/21/preprint-authorship-father-adds-daughter-name-without-permission/
https://bsky.app/profile/retractionwatch.com/post/3mjx4vjjuz22y
Published: April 20, 2026 18:46
A leading pharmacologist in Italy accused of embezzling research funds is now the subject of coordinated editorial action by one of the field’s professional societies.…
https://bsky.app/profile/retractionwatch.com/post/3mjtto6upl22h
Published: April 19, 2026 11:23
10 years ago today, @elisabethbik.bsky.social published a preprint heard around the world.
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/04/19/elisabeth-bik-scientific-sleuth-image-duplication-mbio-biorxiv-preprint/
https://bsky.app/profile/retractionwatch.com/post/3mjrcttnsek26
Published: April 18, 2026 11:16
Weekend reads: An alternative to the impact factor in China; the clinical trials of six ‘superretractors’; Retraction Watch goes to Capitol Hill…