Selected articles:
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How to juice your Google Scholar h-index, preprint by preprint, Retraction Watch, December 8, 2025
Bug in Springer Nature metadata may be causing ‘significant, systemic’ citation inflation, Retraction Watch, November 11, 2025
Exclusive: Web of Science company involved in dubious awards in Iraq, Retraction Watch, October 31, 2025
Exclusive: Iraqi university forcing students to cite its journals to graduate, Retraction Watch, October 17
Exclusive: Iraqi physicist fired by ministry over massive publishing scam, Retraction Watch, September 19
Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research, The Conversation, January 29, 2025
Shoddy commentaries—a quick and dirty route to higher impact numbers—are on the rise, Science, December 17, 2024
Prescription for controversy, Science, May 3, 2024
No data? No problem! Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper, Retraction Watch, February 5, 2024
Paper Trail, Science, January 18, 2024
Paper-mill articles buoyed Spanish dean’s research output, Retraction Watch, January 18, 2024
World-renowned biologist accused of bullying student, stealing his work, Retraction Watch, August 21, 2023
Did a ‘nasty’ publishing scheme help an Indian dental school win high rankings?, Science, June 7, 2023
In the Death of an Iranian Scientist, Hints of Unchecked Strife, Undark, 05.31.2023
Fedtfrysning i fremmarch: En hypet og ureguleret behandling kan have skjulte farer, Medicinsk Tidsskrift November 2022, PDF
Researchers Find HPV Vaccine Trials Put Safety on the Back Burner, Slate, March 11, 2020
India’s antibiotic combinations thwart efforts to curb drug resistance, say researchers, The BMJ, February 5, 2018, PDF
What the Gardasil Testing May Have Missed, Slate, December 17, 2017
Health camps and surveys: marketing an unproved, unapproved drug in India, The BMJ, December 20, 2016, PDF
Driven to Suicide by an ‘Inhuman and Unnatural’ Pressure to Sell, The New York Times, August 11, 2016
India Seeks to Curb Dangerous Drug Cocktails -- Big Pharma freely markets combo products banned elsewhere, MedPage Today, June 28, 2016.
Bad Science Means Good Business for Abbott in India, MedPage Today, February 28, 2016
India’s “health camps”: the drug rep will see you now, The BMJ, December 2, 2015, PDF
Many babies exposed to unnecessary pain in research, Reuters, October 9, 2015
Medicine in India: 'Qualified Quacks' and a Baffling Drug Landscape, VICE News, August 24, 2015
Surrogate mothers in India unaware of risks, Reuters, March 2, 2015
Robot fører kniven, Politiken, November 20, 2014, PDF
VIDEO: Could quack doctors be a boon to India’s healthcare system?, GlobalPost, March 24, 2014
In India, chances are the doctor is a quack, GlobalPost, March 24, 2014