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Retraction Watch turned 13 on Thursday. The week also featured:

• Former postdoc who admitted to faking data pleads guilty to attempted forgery
• Happy 13th birthday, Retraction Watch: Another eventful year
• An editor resigned in protest. Now, Wiley is firing him four months earlier than he planned to leave.
• President of Japanese university resigns after findings of ‘self-plagiarism’
• Exclusive: How a dean went about correcting the scientific record even when at least one journal said he didn’t need to

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to nearly 350. There are now 42,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in Edifix, EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains 200 titles. 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):

• “In February 2006, a professor of Rajshahi University was killed after he detected plagiarism and piracy in 10 of the 11 research papers submitted by his junior colleague as part of his promotion application.” 17 years later, the colleague was hanged.
• “Exclusive: Shake-up at top psychiatric institute following suicide in clinical trial.”
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