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Exclusive: Elsevier journal COPE threatened with sanctions will retract four...
Andrew Grey The journal a publication ethics watchdog threatened with sanctions for taking years to retract articles will pull four more related papers, Retraction Watch has learned. Last July, the...
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Elsevier investigating papers after IEEE finds ‘self-plagiarism’
Following a complaint from a reader, editors at the U.S.-based publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) determined the researchers behind two decade-old papers had committed...
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Elsevier journal issues 73 expressions of concern for manipulated peer review
An Elsevier journal has expressed concern over 73 papers with evidence of manipulated peer-review and rigged citations. Last July, we reported that Masoud Afrand, a former member of the editorial...
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Editor and authors refuse to share data of paper containing alleged...
Olivia Robertson Last July, David Allison and his students identified what they considered to be fatal errors in a paper that had appeared in Elsevier’s Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. The...
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Journal hijackers still infiltrate Scopus despite its efforts
Anna Abalkina Last December, Elsevier’s Scopus index deleted all links to journal homepages in response to the widespread issue of journal hijacking, when a legitimate title, website, ISSN, and other...
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‘Exhausting’: Author finds another’s name on an Elsevier book chapter she wrote
Ina Vandebroek When Ina Vandebroek read the latest edition of Pharmacognosy, an Elsevier textbook to which she contributed a chapter for the 2017 edition, she was shocked. Although she had declined to...
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Elsevier withdraws plagiarized paper after original author calls journal out...
Sasan Sadrizadeh In late May, one of Sasan Sadrizadeh’s doctoral students stumbled upon a paper with data directly plagiarized from his previous work. Sadrizadeh, a researcher at KTH Royal Institute...
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The wolf in Scopus’ clothing: Another hijacked journal has indexed nearly 900...
Mohammed Al-Amr A prolific hijacked journal has managed to breach the defenses of Scopus, one of the world’s leading academic databases. This time, the target is the award-winning journal Community...
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Scopus is broken – just look at its literature category
Aleksandar Stević As Retraction Watch recently reported, three of the top 10 philosophy journals in the highly influential Scopus database turned out to be fakes: Not only did these dubious journals...
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Elsevier investigating geology journal after allegations of pal review
M. Santosh Elsevier is investigating the journal Geoscience Frontiers after a PubPeer thread flagged an editorial advisor whose articles in the journal were edited by his frequent co-authors. The...
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