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Journal founded by plastic surgeon touts studies of products he’s tied to – including one that has been retracted. retractionwatch.com/2026/10/…

Journal founded by plastic surgeon touts studies of products he’s tied to – including one that has...

An illustration of a cell secreting exosomes. Meletios Verras/iStock In a February 2018 editorial, Rod Rohrich, a plastic surgeon and the former president of the World Association of Medical Editor…

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Science replaces expression of concern for paper on AI chatbots and conspiracy theories with an erratum. retractionwatch.com/2026/06/… science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… The publisher did the same for an article with a duplicated figure. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Science flags paper that found AI chatbots help debunk conspiracy theories 

Science has issued an expression of concern for a highly publicized study looking into whether conversations with AI chatbots could convince conspiracy theorists to abandon their beliefs. The move …

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"Will a M-index to measure academic mentorship create more problems than it solves?" blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci…

Will a M-index to measure academic mentorship create more problems than it solves? - LSE Impact

Can academic mentorship be measured? Or will efforts, like a proposed M-Index, lead to further gamification of teaching and learning in postgraduate education?

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"Citation accuracy, citation noise, and citation bias: a foundation of citation analysis." link.springer.com/article/10…

Citation accuracy, citation noise, and citation bias: a foundation of citation analysis

Scientometrics - Citation analysis is widely used in research evaluation to assess the impact of scientific papers. These analyses rest on the assumption that citation decisions by authors are...

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"Post-publication review as a digital colloquium." reproducibilitea.org/jc/2026…

Post-publication review as a digital colloquium

The central question of science is: how can we improve our scientific theories?

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Thousands of research studies violate journal policies on collaborations between editors and authors. retractionwatch.com/2026/10/…

Thousands of research studies violate journal policies on collaborations between editors and authors

A tool developed to mine metadata and find past collaborations between handling editors and authors has turned up thousands of cases that breach journal policies on such relationships. J. Di Scala …

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“Study highlights public investment behind academic publishers’ profits.” researchinformation.info/new…

Study highlights public investment behind academic publishers' profits - Research Information

Public investment "typically accounts for more than 95% of the cost of producing a research article", says study

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“Nine in ten research papers disputing definition of ultraprocessed foods have industry ties, study finds.” theexamination.org/articles/…

Nine in ten research papers disputing definition of ultraprocessed foods have industry ties, study...

The finding comes as policymakers are grappling with how to handle ultraprocessed foods.

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"Cops raid office of RFK Jr. allies planning 'unethical' vaccine trial on babies." arstechnica.com/health/2026/… Read a Retraction Watch guest post on the trial. retractionwatch.com/2026/02/…

Cops raid office of RFK Jr. allies planning “unethical” vaccine trial on babies

Guinea-Bissau police said hepatitis B vaccine doses were taken as part of an investigation.

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Journal issues correction for article on heart device with incorrect clinical trial registration number following our coverage. academic.oup.com/europace/ar… retractionwatch.com/2026/09/…

Correction to: Outcomes of simplified left atrial appendage occlusion using the WATCHMAN FLX...

This is a correction to:

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“Has AI Destroyed the Doctoral Dissertation?” chronicle.com/article/has-ai…

Opinion | Has AI Destroyed the Doctoral Dissertation?

We can no longer rely on it as a proxy for academic expertise. What now?

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“Bibliometrics: Are we doing everything wrong?” qspace.fqxi.org/articles/287…

FQxI Article: Bibliometrics: Are we doing everything wrong?

The Foundational Questions Institute, FQxI, catalyzes, supports, and disseminates research on questions at the foundations of science, particularly new frontiers and innovative ideas integral to a...

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"It’s time to teach peer review as a core research skill." nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

It’s time to teach peer review as a core research skill

Nature - Preprint journal clubs offer a scalable way to make peer-review training a routine part of scientific education.

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Former editor-in-chief says journals "should cap each author’s submissions – but with a twist." timeshighereducation.com/opi…

Journals should cap each author’s submissions – but with a twist

Having recently completed my editor-in-chief’s role for a management journal, I wrote my final editorial in appreciation of the care I witnessed when authors, reviewers and editors interacted in the...

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Bulgarian Academic Ethics Committee report found "over 95% plagiarism" in professor's paper. mon.bg/nfs/2026/10/doklad_ka… dnevnik.bg/obrazovanie/2026/…
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Journal founded by plastic surgeon touts studies of products he’s tied to – including one that has been retracted. retractionwatch.com/2026/10/…

Journal founded by plastic surgeon touts studies of products he’s tied to – including one that has...

An illustration of a cell secreting exosomes. Meletios Verras/iStock In a February 2018 editorial, Rod Rohrich, a plastic surgeon and the former president of the World Association of Medical Editor…

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Former Crick Ph.D. student loses COVID vaccine paper for fabrication. retractionwatch.com/2026/10/…

Former Crick Ph.D. student loses COVID vaccine paper for fabrication

Science Translational Medicine has retracted a paper on COVID-19 vaccines after an institutional investigation revealed a former Ph.D. student fabricated data and falsified images in the article. T…

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"Anticipating the unpredictable: A qualitative study on ethics experts’ perspectives on review challenges related to AI." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Anticipating the unpredictable: A qualitative study on ethics experts’ perspectives on review...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly integrated into research across disciplines, raising various ethical concerns related to bias, privacy, transparency, and accountability. However, less ...

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"Scientists say authors of a controversial government climate report made basic error," relied on "flawed analysis." agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.… thebulletin.org/2026/10/scie…

Misrepresentation of Human Climate Fingerprint in DOE Report

A July 2025 DOE report claimed that there is no human fingerprint on the vertical structure of atmospheric temperature change This claim was based on a comparison of modeled and observed temperat...

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"Science-wide mapping of institutions based on affiliated authors' impact and research integrity proxies." royalsocietypublishing.org/r…

Science-wide mapping of institutions based on affiliated authors' impact and research integrity...

Abstract. We aimed to generate institution-level data of indicators that may reflect, as proxies, the impact and the research integrity of the authors affi

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