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Many figures in four papers by a research team in Malaysia contain duplication or manipulation, a university committee has found, calling for multiple retractions. We learned about issues with three of the papers, including one in Scientific Reports, earlier this week when they were the talk of Twitter. As journals issued expressions of concern, and an expert wondered how […]
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A journal apparently changed its mind about the uniqueness of a math paper, published last year. We’ll get right to the brief retraction notice: The paper: “AL-Watani manifold admitting semi symmetric metric connection” by Musa A.A. Jawarneh, which appeared in Pure Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 4, 2015, no. 1, 1-8 has been retracted from Pure Mathematical […]
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