Journal halts submissions, citing NIH cuts; rejected paper published by ‘mistake’; feds cancel grant amid misconduct allegations – Retraction Watch

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• University of Toronto should take action on flawed breast screening study, says longtime critic
• Experiment using AI-generated posts on Reddit draws fire for ethics concerns
• AI-Reddit study leader gets warning as ethics committee moves to ‘stricter review process’
• Why has it taken more than a year to correct a COVID-19 paper?
• A Ph.D. in paper mills? 
• Former cancer researcher who sued university for discrimination hits 35 retractions

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 58,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 300 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):

Upcoming talks

• Managing editor Kate Travis moderates “Behind the Music: A Candid Conversation with Journal Editors and Publishers,” at the 21st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (May 13, Washington, D.C. )

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