Confidence is a distinct advantage in evolution – and, according to a new research paper from Germany, also an advantage when a scientific paper is getting reviewed by Large Language Models (LLMs) instead of an author’s peers (an increasingly frequent necessity,…
An Elsevier journal on computer applications in biomedicine has retracted 13 papers — including four by a former editor-in-chief — for suspicious authorship changes and erroneous citations. The articles were published in Computers in Biology and Medicine from 2019 to 2023. The October 15 retraction notices…
Bioengineered retracted 119 papers in October amid investigations into suspected paper mill activity and other integrity-related concerns at the Taylor & Francis journal. Clarivate delisted Bioengineered from its Web of Science platform in May 2025, after placing it on hold a year earlier.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2026 To characterise recent trends in retractions of publications in the psychiatric literature. We examined the Retraction Watch Database for publications with the subject term ‘psychiatry’ between 2003 and 2023. We then characterised publication type, subject,…
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Debates about the economics of scholarly publishing typically focus on subscription prices, article processing charges, publisher revenues, and profit margins. Much less attention is paid to the costs incurred in producing the research that makes scholarly publishing possible. The final…
Scientific advances depend on publishing new discoveries in peer reviewed journals. But what happens when researchers who use innovative, nonanimal methods face different standards in the publication process, compared to researchers who experiment on animals? Catharine E. Krebs, PhD, director of…
The National Library of Medicine has stopped indexing articles from Scientific Reports in MEDLINE because the journal’s inclusion in the world’s largest biomedical library is under review, Retraction Watch has learned. Marszalek did not say why NLM is reviewing Scientific…
The Game Theory Society is severing ties with one of its official journals. The move comes two months after the journal’s editors resigned because Elsevier failed to renew the contract for the journal’s editor-in-chief. The society released a statement on…
If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: “Rethinking Incentives to Publish: Aligning Accountability Across Stakeholders,” a 2026 Council of Science Editors Fall Virtual Symposium…
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