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Kaggle removes problematic stroke dataset for copyright infringement
Kaggle removed a stroke image dataset after it was found to contain stock images and photos of politicians and celebrities labeled as stroke patients, violating intellectual property rights.
Exclusive: News outlet killed story on plagiarism allegations after Cambridge prof hired law firm
Times Higher Education reportedly killed an investigation into plagiarism allegations against Cambridge sociology professor Jason Arday after he hired a law firm.
Weekend reads: Young girl's death after gene therapy never made public; FDA retracts lettuce test result; ADA delays editorial publication after controversy
Retraction Watch Database has surpassed 66,000 retractions.
Weekend reads: Young girl's death after gene therapy never made public; FDA retracts lettuce test result; ADA delays editorial publication after controversy
This Retraction Watch weekly roundup touches on several research integrity threads relevant to the broader scholarly publishing beat — including the Hijacked Journal Checker surpassing 450 entries (a tool with clear AI/automation implications for detecting fraudulent journals) and the ADA editori...
Editors of economics journal resign after association renews Taylor & Francis contract
Forty-one editors, associate editors, and advisory board members of the Review of Social Economy have resigned following the Association for Social Economics' decision to renew its publishing contract with Taylor & Francis.
Exclusive: A couple paid more than $800,000 for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died, and it wasn't made public
An investigation by Science and Retraction Watch reveals that a 6-year-old girl died during a privately funded gene-editing clinical trial in China costing her family over $800,000.
Exclusive: Medical student in Nepal behind busy research factory
Retraction Watch reveals a WhatsApp-based research network of nearly 1,000 members orchestrated by a second-year medical student in Nepal, mass-producing systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and conference abstracts with authorship as a commodity.
Publisher investigating peer reviewer for alleged bribery scheme
A publisher is investigating a peer reviewer who allegedly solicited payment from an author in exchange for manuscript assistance — a form of peer review corruption that sits at the intersection of research integrity and the broader crisis in scholarly publishing's credibility.
Weekend reads: Private info in 'most' arXiv preprints; why did George Church decline authorship; 28 misconduct cases in China
Retraction Watch's weekend roundup highlights a notable finding: private information appears in 'most' arXiv preprints, raising significant questions about AI training data, privacy, and preprint governance.
'Disappointed': Cochrane journal asked researchers to publish article, then retracted it for conflicts
A Cochrane journal invited submission of a paper describing an AI literature review tool, then retracted it after identifying that the article's author was also the CEO of the company making the tool — a conflict of interest the journal acknowledged it should have caught.
'The exploitation still remains': Stats journal associate editors resign over $3,000 publishing charge
A mass editorial resignation at Statistics and Computing over Springer Nature's imposition of a $3,000 APC reflects deepening tensions between publishers and academic communities over the economics of open access.
Exclusive: Sage to retract multiple articles by dismissed rising star for 'compromised' peer-review process
A mass retraction action by Sage against a prominent researcher-turned-editor who manipulated peer review at a journal he edited.
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