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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• ‘Still angry’: Chemist finds his name on a study he didn’t write
• Sage slaps more than 100 papers from one journal with expressions of concern
• Pair of management papers retracted for similarities to earlier work
• Who you calling ‘bignose’? Shark paper corrected after species mix-up

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 450. There are more than 50,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 300 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? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our list of nearly 100 papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?

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

• Which countries have the highest rates of retractions? Two different answers from two different studies.
• When a “lie is allowed to fester and. . . inform public thinking”: ‘Zombie facts’ with our Ivan Oransky.
• How the president of a German university “Fell Due to False Plagiarism Allegations.”
• “Unaffiliated researcher” sections in journals: “How would we feel about a world where everyone can participate in the formal enterprise of research?”
• “Researchers have a responsibility...

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