Majority of journal’s editorial board resigns after publisher’s handling of...
A leading journal in ecology and evolution is going through an evolution of its own, following the resignation of its editor in chief and more than half of its editorial board. The mass exodus at...
View ArticleStudy of autism and vitamin D earns retraction after questions about reliability
A pediatrics journal has retracted a 2016 article purporting to be the first randomized controlled trial on the effects of vitamin D supplements on autism over concerns about the reliability of the...
View ArticlePaper used to support ban on Caster Semenya competing earns massive correction
The authors of a controversial paper on what constitutes “normal” hormone levels in men and women — and, by implication, “male” and “female” athletes — are set to issue a massive correction of the...
View ArticleEntire board of law journal resigns in a ‘small act of resistance’
The defense resigns. The entire editorial board of the European Law Journal, along with its two top editors, has quit over a dispute about contract terms and the behavior of its publisher, Wiley. In a...
View ArticleA journal publishes a critical letter — then says it was a mistake
On Sept. 17, 2019, virologist David Sanders — who recently won a lawsuit brought against him for efforts as a scientific sleuth — wrote a letter to the Journal of Cellular Physiology about a 2004 paper...
View ArticleA Wiley journal makes another article disappear
In journalism, we have a running joke: Once something happens three times, it is a trend. Well, one publisher’s propensity for making articles disappear from journal websites seems to be a trend. Twice...
View ArticleThe bizarre anti-vaccine paper a Florida professor has been trying to have...
Fly, meet elephant’s back. Robert Speth has spent the last 19 months trying to get two of the world’s largest medical publishers to retract an article he considers to be a “travesty” of...
View ArticleA tale of three journals: Paper retracted when associate editor submits to...
What a difference a D makes. Ask Kevin Pile. Pile edits the International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases (let’s call it the IJRD), a Wiley publication. Last year, he published a guest editorial by...
View ArticleAbstracts flagged because conferences — including one in Wuhan in late 2019 —...
A journal has issued an expression of concern after learning that it may have published abstracts from meetings that appear not to have taken place. As many journals do, Basic & Clinical...
View ArticleAnatomy journal retracts 13 papers
The Anatomical Record is correcting itself in a big way, pulling 13 articles, including several linked to paper mills. The papers, all by authors in China, were published between 2019 and 2021. Some...
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