Another Springer Nature Journal Has Retracted Over 300 Papers Since

Soft Computing, a Springer Nature title, has retracted at least 335 papers this year, many from issues with guest editors. The mass retractions began in July, with the latest appearing November 4. The retraction notes contain identical language to notices in Environmental Science and Pollution Research and Optical and Quantum Electronics, which have also been retracting articles en masse this year: An investigation by the publisher found a number of articles, including this one, with a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised editorial handling and peer review process, inappropriate or irrelevant references... Based on the investigation’s findings the publisher no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article. Sleuths using the Problematic Paper Screener have flagged more than 700 articles in the journal that cite retracted or otherwise problematic papers or contain tortured phrases, nonstandard language that hints at the use of...

Scientific publisher Springer Nature has begun to retract dozens of papers that relied on a dataset fraught with ethical and reliability concerns, The Transmitter has learned. Five papers have been retracted since 16 November, and 33 more retractions are planned, says Tim Kersjes, Springer Nature’s head of research integrity, resolutions. The papers attempted to train neural networks to distinguish between autistic and non-autistic children in a dataset containing photos of children’s faces. Retired engineer Gerald Piosenka created the dataset in 2019 by downloading photos of children from “websites devoted to the subject of autism,” according to a description of the dataset’s methods, and uploaded it to... The dataset contains more than 2,900 photos of children’s faces, half of which are labeled as autistic and the other half as not autistic. After learning about a paper that cites the dataset, “I went and downloaded the dataset, and I was completely horrified,” says Dorothy Bishop, emeritus professor of developmental neuropsychology at the University of Oxford.

“When I saw how it was created, I just thought, ‘This is absolute bonkers.’” Without identifying each child in the dataset, there is no way to confirm that any of them do or do not have autism, Bishop says. The number of retractions issued for research articles in 2023 has passed 10,000 — smashing annual records — as publishers struggle to clean up a slew of sham papers and peer-review fraud. Among large research-producing nations, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia and China have the highest retraction rates over the past two decades, a Nature analysis has found. Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription

Receive 51 print issues and online access Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout You have /5 articles left.Sign up for a free account or log in. An academic journal published by Springer has retracted over 200 papers since the start of last month, Retraction Watch reported. The journal, Optical and Quantum Electronics, published at least 10 retraction notes on Tuesday alone, all regarding articles published in 2023 and 2024 and written by various authors. The notes contained similar messages, saying Springer had retracted the papers after an investigation into multiple articles found concerns.

The scope of the investigation wasn't specified. “These concerns include but are not limited to the article being out of scope for the journal, the peer-review process not being in line with editorial policy, inappropriate or irrelevant references being included or... “The publisher and editors-in-chief therefore no longer have confidence in the results and conclusions of this article and have agreed that it should be retracted.” Other similar retraction notes said the investigation raised concerns about a “compromised peer-review process.” Springer Nature出版商旗下三本期刊今年遭遇大规模撤稿，分别是Soft Computing，自2024年7月以来撤回超过300篇稿件，Optical and Quantum Electronics，自2024年7月以来撤回超过200篇稿件， Environmental Science and Pollution Research今年已经撤稿超过140篇，其中前两本被 on hold， 第三本被踢出。 该期刊在前几年发文量大，录用率高。号称计算机领域的“毕业神刊”。该期刊供计算机科学专业的学者投稿，作为非开放获取（OA）期刊，没有版面费。本来有很好的机会发表，7月份却惨遭惨遭on hold。自那以后，该期刊开始大批量撤稿，其中许多来自客座编辑的期刊，撤稿理由是出版商的调查发现，包括本文在内的多篇文章存在一些问题，包括但不限于编辑处理和同行评审过程受损、引用不恰当或不相关，或者不在期刊或客座编辑期刊的范围内。根据调查结果，出版商不再对本文的结果和结论有信心。

“出版商的一项调查发现，包括本文在内的多篇文章存在多项问题，包括但不限于编辑处理和同行评审过程受到损害、引用不当或不相关，以及论文内容不在期刊或客座编辑专题的范围内。基于调查的结果，出版商不再相信这篇文章的结果和结论。” https://dbrech.irit.fr/pls/apex/f?p=9999:3::::::)的侦探们已经标记出《Soft Computing》期刊中超过700篇文章存在潜在问题，这些文章或引用了被撤回的论文，或包含牵强附会的短语和非标准语言，暗示可能使用了同义词典或改写软件以躲避抄袭嫌疑。 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02134-0 The headlines read as follows: “Engineering publisher pulled 57 papers in a day for peer review ‘irregularities.’”1 Or: “Another Springer Nature journal has retracted over 300 papers since July.”2 (The article appeared that November,... https://adventistreview.org/perspectives/columnists/retraction-watch-2/ Optical and Quantum Electronics, a Springer Nature journal, has retracted more than 200 papers since the start of September, and continues issuing retraction notices en masse.

According to the notices, which have similar wording, the retractions come after the publisher identified problems with the articles including compromised peer review, inappropriate or irrelevant references, and nonsensical phrases, suggesting blind use of... “These investigations are based on intelligence from past work alongside whistleblower information,” Chris Graf, director of research integrity at Springer Nature in Oxford, UK, told Retraction Watch. But Graf declined to share the specifics of the inquiry: “We need to keep details of these investigations confidential to ensure that we do not inform the efforts of individuals who may engage in... Guillaume Cabanac, a computer scientist at the University of Toulouse, France, first highlighted issues with the journal in a February post on X. Cabanac has created software that spots odd language in academic papers he dubbed “tortured phrases,” which seem to be the result of attempts to circumvent plagiarism checks. His Problematic Paper Screener had flagged nearly 50 articles in Optical and Quantum Electronics riddled with tortured phrases, mostly published in 2023.

“I suspect papermill submissions + compromised peer review,” he wrote on X at the time, referring to shady services that sell authorship slots and citations on papers.

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