With everyday life looking more and more like it did before anyone ever heard of COVID-19, our list of the year’s top retractions—this is our tenth for The Scientist—doesn’t include any coronavirus-related papers for the first time since the pandemic began. Instead, we have a Nobel prize winner, bulk retractions for manipulated peer review and the output of paper mills, and cancer researchers caught manipulating data. Read on for these and the rest of our top retractions of 2022.
1 Leslie McIntosh, CEO and cofounder of Ripeta, a tech company that offers automated tools to assess scientific papers, was on Twitter one day when she saw a tweet posted this March by a pseudonymous account bemoaning a journal’s lack of action on “an obvious case of plagiarism” that the owner of the account had reported more than a year earlier. McIntosh dug in and found that the author of the ...
