an interesting retraction notice, (one of many) and a cautionary tale for those who think you can evaluate scientists by counting citations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Scientific Reports: Hold my beer. pubpeer.com/publications...

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Elsevier out here publishing 2027-issues and they still accept papers without ever opening any figure file. Duplicated XRD pattern in Figure 1a. It's not that hard to spot this dear editors... Gong et al. 2027 in 'Synthetic Metals' (DOI: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2026.118324): pubpeer.com/publications...

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Here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... have fun

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If you are a fading researcher who is distressed about your papers being scrutinized, please contact this person. "IF WE DON'T RECOVER MONEY FOR YOU, YOU DON'T OWE US A THING!" Maybe @kenwhite.bsky.social has opinions.

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