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Weekend reads: A retraction for top cancer researcher; paper mill ads paired to IEEE proceedings; about that study on ChatGPT and learning
Dense roundup hitting multiple critical AI-in-publishing threads simultaneously: paper mills exploiting IEEE proceedings at scale (1,700 offers), AI disclosure policies not working across 5 million papers, a South Africa AI policy withdrawn due to AI-generated fake sources, and a Harvard physicis...
NEJM retracts case study for AI-manipulated imagery
High-impact retraction from one of the world's most prestigious medical journals.
Are AI chatbots infiltrating online survey data? Not yet, says new study
Empirical counterpoint to a growing fear in research methodology: AI bots gaming survey data.
Weekend reads: What paper mills charge for author slots; UK Biobank data breached; what researchers think of the future of science
Retraction Watch's weekend roundup surfaces the BuyTheBy dataset—a new resource tracking paper mill authorship pricing ($56–$5,600 per slot)—alongside the UK Biobank data breach and reader links on AI as a research tool and AI agents gaining social network capabilities.
Journal goes dark after impersonating Eric Topol and others
A predatory journal fabricated papers and listed high-profile researchers — including Eric Topol — as authors without consent.
Buying a first author slot can cost you anywhere from $56 to $5,600
The BuyTheBy dataset offers the first systematic look at the economics of fake authorship — a shadow market where AI-generated papers increasingly serve as the product being sold.
Retraction Watch testifies in Congressional hearing on scientific publishing
Retraction Watch managing editor Kate Travis testified before the U.S.
Weekend reads: LLMs 'are not the problem'; Cash for peer review 'doesn't work,' project finds; 'Many Flaws, Few Retractions' in vaping literature
A roundup covering LLMs and research integrity, the failure of cash incentives for peer review, and a deep dive into the vaping literature's reproducibility problems.
Weekend reads: LLMs 'are not the problem'; Cash for peer review 'doesn't work,' project finds; 'Many Flaws, Few Retractions' in vaping literature
A Retraction Watch roundup anchored by emerging debate on whether LLMs are intrinsically problematic for scholarly integrity or merely a symptom of deeper system failures.
Weekend reads: Half of social science 'doesn't replicate'; 'Scientific ghosts: Life after retraction'; multisensory learning paper retracted
The mention of AI-generated fake article networks elevates this beyond a standard retraction roundup.
BMJ retracts most of a special issue for 'compromised' peer review and 'improbable device use'
A significant case study in AI-assisted research integrity enforcement.
'Weekend reads: LLMs ''are not the problem''; Cash for peer review ''doesn''t
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