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Their wordsUnfortunately, many of these problematic papers are still not addressed by the journals now, ten years later, even though the concerns in some of them are far beyond what could be blamed on an innocent error.
Their wordsThese are what I call "5 second retractions" - no matter what the authors will tell you ("the original photos were lost in an airplane crash"; "our basement got flooded", or "the intern did it"), there is no conceivable way that these duplications could have happened by accident.
Their wordsCytokine has been one of the journals that did very little with the 30 papers I reported to them in October 2015. Of those papers, only 2 have been retracted, and another 2 have been corrected. The remaining 26 (87%!) have not been touched.
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