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tomk.eurosky.social
That's retraction #22 for VS Aigbodion...

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spottingthespot.bsky.social spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · Nov 15
It happened again, @tkes.bsky.social strikes again! Another retraction for professional #papermill #fraud Victor Sunday Aigbodion. How long till he ends up in the @retractionwatch.com leaderboard?
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
tomk.eurosky.social
I must admit that this one was an artwork. No less than 10 image duplications in a single paper! 🥸

This author has published almost 300 papers, of which 185 are problematic, but only 17 retractions, so far... 🐌

#ResearchIntegrity 🕵️ #ImageForensics #FoSci #ThisImageIsFine
spottingthespot.bsky.social spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · Oct 11
Well well, @tkes.bsky.social did it again! #papermill idiot Victor Sunday Aigbodion from the University of Nigeria Nsukka got another retraction! This #fraud has published nothing but made up papers. Finally one publishers, @natureportfolio.nature.com, is catching and retracting.
October 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
tomk.eurosky.social
🐌🧪 #SlowScience is needed for #ResearchIntegrity - Season 593/Episode 254908047

📢Special episode: featuring @lonnibesancon.bsky.social 🕵️

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A conference taught me that scientists and journalists must work together to protect research
Science sleuth Lonni Besançon realizes that he has sometimes misunderstood what the media want from him and his researcher colleagues.
www.nature.com
June 16, 2026 at 12:51 PM
tomk.eurosky.social
Good to know that AI tools can help detecting fraud, but this is not sustainable in the long term. As long as authors are incentivized to publish more and more, the publishing bubble keeps just inflating... 🫧 #SlowScience

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www.chemistryworld.com/features/ai-...
AI tools tackle paper mill fraud overwhelming peer review
With more article submissions and fraudulent activity than ever before, journal peer review processes are creaking under the pressure. Nina Notman discovers how AI and automated tools are taking some ...
www.chemistryworld.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:17 AM
tomk.eurosky.social
🎄Under the Xmas tree this morning, a nice article by @forbetterscience.bsky.social about @mumumouse2.bsky.social's and my reporting of Ayman Atta's stealth correction of a frauded figure.
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forbetterscience.com/2024/12/20/s...
Schneider Shorts 20.12.2024 – A Christmas Carroll
Schneider Shorts 20.12.2024 – dirty old man now harmless enough to retract THAT paper, editors on a stealth mission, with an Italian chatbot, a Czech rector papermilling, a second investigati…
forbetterscience.com
December 20, 2024 at 7:17 AM
tomk.eurosky.social
Doubling down on @steamtraen.eu 's comment. The dataset of this "RCT" shows typical signs of [amateur level] data fabrication. 🥸

@bmj.com the ball is in your court! 🙏

Well spotted @deevybee.bsky.social 🔎
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November 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
tomk.eurosky.social
Well done, @mumumouse2.bsky.social and @nvitiensis.bsky.social ! 🤝
Retraction #41 for JRX from Saveetha engineering college, India
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spottingthespot.bsky.social spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 28d
And one more for Joseph Raj Xavier! This time @tomk.eurosky.social didn't cause the retraction...

doi.org/10.1007/s117...
September 5, 2026 at 4:44 PM
tomk.eurosky.social
That makes 18 retractions for this fraud addict! 🥸

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October 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
tomk.eurosky.social
🥱Feel like your scientific paper is redundant?👉📄 Look at this one: authors reused 4 figures [for different experiments, of course!] and coined the term "thermal temperature"🥸 shorturl.at/m0pve

With @nvitiensis.bsky.social 👍
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Bar chart. X axis is "Thermal Temperature(°C)"; Y axis is "wear rate (g/m)"
April 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
tomk.eurosky.social
🧪Science's ordinary racism 🤢
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forbetterscience.com/2025/03/11/c...
Concerns for whites, retractions for the rest?
“Expressions of Concern may be used as an interim notice to flag a potential issue that may be ultimately resolved with another amendment outcome (e.g. retraction or correction) or they may r…
forbetterscience.com
March 11, 2025 at 6:38 AM
tomk.eurosky.social
I respectfully disagree! VS Aigbodion should definitely invite me: I'm helping him becoming famous! 😁

Retraction # 1️⃣9️⃣...

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spottingthespot.bsky.social spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · Oct 14
Something tells me @tkes.bsky.social isn't going to get invited by Victor Sunday Aigbodion for sunday roast! Another retraction for #papermill #fraud Victor Sunday Aigbodion!
October 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
tomk.eurosky.social
Dear @wellcometrust.bsky.social ,
Are you comfortable with your funds being used by researchers for cheating with science? Is there a mechanism to recover the misused funds? 💰
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pubpeer.com/publications...
December 20, 2024 at 8:12 AM
tomk.eurosky.social
🎆Happy2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣! New year's resolution: be sarcastic! 😈

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PubPeer comment of a scientific figure showing cloned and flipped patterns of a spectrum. The commentator: "The authors somehow forgot to comment the most remarkable finding in the Rg of the WT and Y85N mutant quinone reductases, i.e. that the pattern is the exact repetition of two pieces of pattern: a, b, [a flipped], and b again. file Bizarrely, horizontal lines corresponding to y axis appear in the middle of the figure (purple circles) Could you please explain this extraordinary phenomenon?"
January 7, 2025 at 10:18 AM
tomk.eurosky.social
♻️ recycle your figures ⚠️ Same figure in 8 papers !

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pubpeer.com/publications...
PubPeer post showing that the same images were used in 8 different manuscripts and presented differently: CLE-AgNPs in RSC Advances (2024): https://doi.org/10.1039/d4ra02362e AgNps in Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery (2024): https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-024-05384-w AgNps in The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (2024): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-023-12793-0 SiO2 NPs in Chemical Papers (2024): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11696-023-03135-1 GAgNPs in Emergent Materials (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s42247-023-00446-7 SiO2 NPs in Emergent Materials (2022): https://doi.org/10.1007/s42247-022-00401-y SiO2 NPs in Tribology International (2024): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-022-10419-5 AgNps in Tribology International (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.triboint.2024.109270
January 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
tomk.eurosky.social
JRX earned 2 more retractions from Wiley's J Applied Polymer Science. All 4 papers in this journal now retracted✅

With 126 papers flagged on @pubpeer.com, he's on his way to @retractionwatch.com leaderboard top 10! 🏅

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December 30, 2024 at 3:41 AM