Frederik Joelving
@joelving.bsky.social
Contributing editor @retractionwatch.com, formerly @Reuters_Health. I welcome tips. Views are my own.
Real-world politics is necessarily strategic. Nonetheless, bowing one’s head and treating Trump with deference normalizes his unacceptable and undignified behaviors www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/w...
New Zealand Dismisses Top Diplomat in U.K. After His Remarks on Trump
The envoy, Phil Goff, questioned President Trump’s understanding of history at a public event about the war in Ukraine.
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"Retraction Watch is to be commended for pushing hard to improve how retractions are recorded, and for creating a relatively clean database of retractions on which further tools and analyses, including those used in Nature’s analysis, can be built."
Why retractions data could be a powerful tool for cleaning up science
A Nature analysis of retractions hotspots around the world suggests institutions should pay close attention to retractions data.
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Congratulations @jabyrnesci.bsky.social on winning the well-deserved David Vaux Research Integrity Fellowship Award. bit.ly/4aVDilW
Professor renowned for expunging fake research receives David Vaux
Professor Jennifer Byrne’s career has diverted from cancer research to research integrity. Image: supplied The Academy is delighted to announce Professor Jennifer Byrne from the University of Sydney
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Following our two investigations in @science.org (science.org/content/arti... & science.org/content/arti...), @SIMATS_Univ in India has had more than 260 papers retracted, @retractionwatch.com's @averyorrall.bsky.social reports retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/a...
Did a ‘nasty’ publishing scheme help an Indian dental school win high rankings?
Prodigious self-citation enables Saveetha Dental College to top global lists, investigation finds
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The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. @joelving.bsky.social reports
As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends its use
The origin of the phrase? The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Yet “vegetative electron microscopy” had already made it past reviewers and editors at several j…
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“Their intention was, we’re going to go open access, we need to publish everything,” Casanova said. “I cannot be instructed by a publisher to publish everything.” retractionwatch.com/2025/02/06/e...
Editors resign from Springer immunology journal to launch nonprofit title
Several top editors of the Journal of Clinical Immunology, a Springer Nature title, have jumped ship to start a new, nonprofit journal with Rockefeller University Press. Jean-Laurent Casanova…
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A new investigation from The Conversation and @retractionwatch.com sheds light on a troubling phenomenon: Fake research papers are contaminating scientific literature at an alarming rate, with hundreds of thousands of bogus studies circulating.
Good point, @mariahodges.bsky.social, editors&peer reviewers have an extremely important job! Our piece does mention the many suspect papers T&F has caught. Also, editors who catch these papers are doing their (paid) job, while sleuths are usually working on their own time, so there’s a difference.
Maria Hodges@mariahodges.bsky.social · 2y agoA good article on #papermills and the challenges, but there is never enough credit given to good editors (helped by good peer reviewers) who catch and reject these suspect articles. As the metrics aren’t shared, these unsung heroes aren’t given the credit & thanks they deserve.
This: Zielske combed through all the studies...– some 150 papers... and concluded that “a majority” of them looked fake. Some reported... experimental reagents... that were “just gibberish,”... He contacted several of the journals, ... but received little response. “I just stopped following up.” 💔
A deep investigative journalism report on the troubling path of Alzheimer’s drugs approval. www.levernews.com/the-deadly-s...
The Deadly Secrets Behind “Breakthrough” Alzheimer’s Drugs
Regulators approved controversial therapies amid excess deaths, questionable efficacy, and conflicts of interest.
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The Problematic Paper Screener filters 130 million new and old scholarly papers every week, looking for nine types of clues that a paper might be fake or contain errors: https://buff.ly/40z6cTT (@joelving.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com; @gcabanac.cpesr.fr, IRIT; Cyril Labbé, UGA) #AI
Problematic Paper Screener: Trawling for fraud in the scientific literature
Science sleuths are stepping up efforts to detect bogus science papers. This includes building tools that comb through millions of journal articles for signs of tortured phrases spawned by AI.
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Check out our new deep dive on #papermills: Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research theconversation.com/fake-papers-... @gcabanac.cpesr.fr
Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.
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Q: Was there ever really a time when America was healthier? A: "No." See www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/h... "'MAHA' obscures a past during which this country’s people ate, smoked & drank things that mostly left them unwell." Plus: "...all the real health disparities that characterize our system..."
RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Obscures America’s Unhealthy Past
Medical historians say that the phrase “Make America Healthy Again” obscures a past during which this country’s people ate, smoked and drank things that mostly left them unwell.
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Inflating academic output “directly biases the outcomes of ranking systems, compromising their reliability and usefulness” retractionwatch.com/2025/01/10/b...
The 14 universities with publication metrics researchers say are too good to be true
Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences More than a dozen universities have used “questionable authorship practices” to inflate their publication metrics, authors of a new study say. O…
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I'm leaving my role @retractionwatch.com today to devote more time to other projects, but will continue as a contributing editor. Grateful for the 2 terrific years I spent working at this amazing organization on stories holding institutions and researchers to account.
Publishing shoddy commentaries, with lots of self-citation, is a new way for universities in South Asia to manipulate metrics and rankings www.science.org/content/arti...
Shoddy commentaries—a quick and dirty route to higher impact numbers—are on the rise
AI-generated content floods literature with poor-quality publications, casts doubt on metrics, Science and Retraction Watch investigation finds
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Careful what you wish for: "In an August editorial, the editors acknowledged some of the increase in submissions the journal had seen “is related to ‘papermill’ type activity.”" retractionwatch.com/2024/12/03/w...
Wiley medical journal retracts dozens of papers for manipulated peer review, with more to come
International Wound Journal, a Wiley title, has retracted 27 papers since June with notices mentioning “manipulated” or “compromised” peer review. “A comprehensive investigation examining manipula…
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Wiley medical journal retracts dozens of papers for manipulated peer review, with more to come retractionwatch.com/2024/12/03/w...
Wiley medical journal retracts dozens of papers for manipulated peer review, with more to come
International Wound Journal, a Wiley title, has retracted 27 papers since June with notices mentioning “manipulated” or “compromised” peer review. “A comprehensive investigation examining manipula…
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Crossref suspends company’s membership after Retraction Watch-@abalkina.bsky.social report
Crossref suspends company’s membership after Retraction Watch report
Crossref, a nonprofit focused on metadata of scholarly publications, has suspended the membership of a company linked to websites which copied the appearance of journals belonging to Elsevier and S…
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