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The journal’s part in a retraction
What explains a journal’s peer-review producing two different results on two separate occasions? Continue reading
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Tagged Ashkan Salamat, Brad Ramshaw, James Hamlin, lutetium hydride, Nature journal, peer review, Physical Review Letters, Ranga Dias, retraction, room-temperature superconductivity
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Gender equity in retractions
From the abstract of a fascinating study published in PLoS ONE on May 3, 2023: … this study investigated gender differences in authorship of retracted papers in biomedical sciences available on RetractionWatch. Among 35,635 biomedical articles retracted between 1970 and … Continue reading
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Tagged ETH Zurich, Marcella Carollo, PLoS ONE, research misconduct, research papers, retraction, Retraction Watch, women in science, women in STEM
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Whose fault is a retraction?
A journal called Advances in Materials Science and Engineering retracted a paper it published and issued the following notice, excerpted from Retraction Watch, December 22, 2022: Advances in Materials Science and Engineering has retracted the article titled “Monitoring of Sports … Continue reading
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Tagged Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, peer review, retraction, scientific literature
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An Indian paper retracted for ‘legal reasons’
The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article because it was published in error before the peer review process was completed. The content of this article has been removed for legal reasons. The authors have been offered to submit a revised manuscript … Continue reading
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Tagged bad language, Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, legal reasons, retraction, Shailesh Nayak
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