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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 268. There are more than 36,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers?

Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):

• “‘I’m nauseated’: Alzheimer’s whistleblower finds possible misconduct by his mentor in their papers.”
• “I never received a reply to this correspondence from the publication’s authors.” A Juul vice president takes to PubPeer.
• “Medical articles in questionable journals are less impactful than those in non-questionable journals but still extensively cited.”
• Wrongful firing case against Sandia contractor can be heard in state court.” The contractor made allegations of scientific misconduct.
• “It took 199 days on average for papers to get published in 2011/12 and 163 days in 2019/20.”
• “The University of Wyoming (UW) will repay all costs questioned by the National Science Foundation (NSF) OIG…”
• “The necessity for errata to scientific publications is increasing with the increase in publications which do not send proofs to authors.”
• There is a new member of the Retraction Watch Leaderboard: Dong...

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