A routine citation check by a data scientist has uncovered a network of fabricated academic papers, raising fresh concerns about the misuse of preprint platforms to inflate citation metrics artificially.
The issue came to light when a researcher from the University of Michigan noticed an unfamil [...]
A series of publications focusing on superheavy elements has come under scrutiny following concerns raised by researchers in the field, resulting in multiple retractions and editorial actions.
A physicist affiliated with a government college in India has recently had three papers retracted, al [...]
A leading scientific publisher has announced the withdrawal of an entire conference proceedings volume after concerns emerged regarding authorship concentration and editorial responsibility within the publication.
The volume, linked to the International Conference on Emerging Frontiers in Mate [...]
A widely cited 2011 study examining how motivation affects intelligence test scores has been retracted after it was discovered that one of the studies [...]
A peer-reviewed energy journal published by Elsevier has withdrawn six articles from its 2022 issues after identifying irregularities related to autho [...]