Record-breaking retraction: Scholarly publisher pulls 1,400 conference papers on one day

Nature's news team has verified that IEEE retracted at least 1,417 conference papers on 23 October. All of them were previously identified by a study of research works that can be traced to social-media advertisements by paper mills – businesses that sell authorship slots for papers which in turn often describe low-quality or fake research.
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So, (1), sounds like a positive trend. But, (2), can Nature put some of this investigational energy into their own retraction problems? Last I heard Sholto David is being stonewalled trying to get some obvious image manipulation retracted from Nature Neuroscience.
 
ScoutB said:
So, (1), sounds like a positive trend. But, (2), can Nature put some of this investigational energy into their own retraction problems? Last I heard Sholto David is being stonewalled trying to get some obvious image manipulation retracted from Nature Neuroscience.
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He is being stonewalled by almost everyone he contacts, it seems like. There seems to be minimal interest in correcting even egregious errors and/or fraud.
 
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