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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Legal scholar who claimed false affiliations moves on to creating dubious legal yearbooks
• Chemist who cooked data claims PhD years after it was revoked
• Two years ago, an author asked a journal to withdraw a paper. It still hasn’t.

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are nearly 39,000 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):

• “Hunter College Whistleblower: Suit Was to End ‘Luxury Vacations, Fraud Schemes, Bloated Bonuses.’”
• “Documents raise questions about UCLA’s suspension of ecologist.” More from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• “Ex-professor at Tokyo MBA school accused of massive plagiarism.”
• “Effective quality control in the medical literature: investigation and retraction vs inaction.”
• “Leaked: EU member states set out to reform scientific publishing.”
• “Papers that get more media coverage ‘less likely to replicate,’” a study finds.
• A defense of the ICMJE authorship guidelines.
• “[A]uthors who added the coerced citations report significantly greater publication success than those who...

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