Ok, this is very fun. Clearly I've spent too much time with the Queen Charlotte fault 🤣 make your own research cloud based on Google Scholar here: scholargoggler.com 🧪
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TL;DR Direct link to the overview of this ongoing epic saga: tinyurl.com/yr26r3zt
Learning the hard way why retractions are so rare. In this case: - authors obscured key details about their methods and data sources - denied doing it, on record - eventually admitted it but said it doesn't change the result Detailed timeline of the process on PubPeer: tinyurl.com/3e7havjy
Trying to peer review a paper. *Tries to log in* "Sorry, that password is incorrect" *Reset password* "Sorry, you cannot use your old password as your new password" Journals, why are you like this? Who hurt you?
The position in the author list doesn't affect word/paper weighting. It would be difficult to generalize this because the meaning of an author's position in a list will vary by discipline. It might be feasible to filter on first/last-author papers but this would cause a much sparser input