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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    Authorea, a preprint server linked to publisher Wiley, informed me yesterday that they had published on 30 January 2024 a preprint of a manuscript which I had submitted to a Wiley journal in the beginning of April 2021. This manuscript was soon rejected after submission and it is not yet...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    A preprint about this topic was published in October 2020 at (PDF) Publisher Taylor & Francis refuses to retract a fraudulent study on the endangered Basra Reed-Warbler Acrocephalus griseldis Revised versions have been submitted to various journals. The correspondence with these journals has...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    See https://osf.io/5pnk7/ for a PDF of this report. An extensive interview with me about our efforts to retract the fraudulent Basra Reed Warbler study was published on 10 January 2020 at https://kloptdatwel.nl/2020/01/10/de-zaak-basrakarekiet/ (in Dutch).
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    No response on a complaint filed to COPE about the acting of publisher Taylor & Francis A complaint (called a ‘concern’) was filed on 28 November 2017 to the Facilitation and Integrity Subcommittee of COPE (the Commmittee on Publication Ethics, https://publicationethics.org/ ) about the...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    I am since a few days in the possession of a copy of this report and of a copy of an English translation of this report. Readers / followers of this thread who are interested in the contents of this report can contact me for a copy. E-mail klaas DOT vdijk AT hetnet DOT nl
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    I was informed for already quite a while ago that the Iraq Ministry of the Environment has published a report in the Arab language about the fraudulent study of the breeding biology of the Basra Reed Warbler by Omar Al-Sheikhly et al. The report has an extensive summary in English. I am told...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    The fraudulent study on the breeding biology of the Basra Reed Warbler in a Taylor & Francis journal is still not retracted. Communicating about this issue with stakeholders and with contacts of these stakeholders (etc.) is still tough / impossible. The comment by Richard Porter et al. (2015)...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    The herculean efforts to get retracted the fraudulent study on the breeding biology of the Basra Reed Warbler are until now unsuccessful. One of the outcomes is the publication on 2 November 2017 of a paper in the journal “Roars Transactions, a Journal on Research Policy and Evaluation” with the...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    Copy/pasted from a recent update at https://www.researchgate.net/project/Retracting-fraudulent-articles-on-the-breeding-biology-of-the-Basra-Reed-Warbler-Acrocephalus-griseldis : Nobel laureate Randy Schekman is urging Taylor & Francis to retract the fraudulent study on the Basra Reed Warbler...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    Herculean efforts to get reviews / comments from experts / reviewers / peers / specialists (within this field of research) who rebut / refute any of the findings in https://www.academia.edu/33827046 (also deposited at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318340512) are until now...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    The comment by Richard Porter et al. (2015) at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09397140.2015.1023424 still attracts lots of new readers with at the moment 2526 views (#2 has 2307 views, #3 has 2189 views, #4 has 1648 views, so almost no new readers for #2, #3 and #4 since my posting...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    Ibis, the Journal of Avian Biology and the Journal of Animal Ecology are highly respected peer-reviewed journals within the field of ornithology and ecology. There have been in the last months contacts with the Editors-of-Chief of these three journals to sort out if they are able to provide...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    I noted a research integrity issue related to the efforts to retract both fraudulent articles on the Basra Reed Warbler with one of the members of the editorial board of the journal 'Research Integrity and Peer Review' https://researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/ I have therefore...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    That is a correct conclusion. The comment by Richard Porter et al. (2015) at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09397140.2015.1023424 is at the moment the most read article of the journal 'Zoology in the Middle East' with 2428 views (#2 has 2305 views, #3 has 2179 views, #4 has 1646 views).
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    Dr. Sophien Kamoun and Dr. Cyril Zipfel of the Sainsbury Laboratory in the UK propose in a recent letter in 'Nature' ( http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v531/n7593/full/531173e.html ) that a failure to repair errors must be regarded as scientific misconduct. Extensive information about the...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    The fraudulent articles on the breeding biology of the Basra Reed Warbler (Al-Sheikhly et al. 2013, 2015) are still not yet retracted. No one has until now refuted / rebutted any of the findings of the "Final investigation on serious allegations of fabricated and/or falsified data in Al-Sheikhly...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    A project about this topic has been started at the platform ResearchGate, see https://www.researchgate.net/project/Retracting-fraudulent-articles-on-the-breeding-biology-of-the-Basra-Reed-Warbler-Acrocephalus-griseldis
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    Dear all, A copy of the report "Final investigation on serious allegations of fabricated and/or falsified data in Al-Sheikhly et al. (2013, 2015) - 1 July 2016" was recently uploaded to Academia.edu. See...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    Anyone would like to comment on a draft in which I document evidence for partial behaviour by the publisher BMJ ( http://www.bmj.com/ )? This behaviour of the publisher BMJ is directly related to our efforts to retract this fraudulent study on the Basra Reed Warbler (Al-Sheikhly et al. 2013...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    This is a correct observation. The Porter et al. (2015) letter of rebuttal at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09397140.2015.1023424 has at the moment 2246 views (the most read article has 2303 views). ------------------------------------------------- Richard Porter wrote on 15 July...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    See http://deevybee.blogspot.nl/2015/02/editors-behaving-badly.html (published 24 February 2015) and http://deevybee.blogspot.nl/2016/06/editorial-integrity-publishers-on-front.html (published 11 June 2016) for experiences of Dorothy Bishop https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/team/dorothy-bishop with...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    jim48 wrote on Tuesday 30th August 2016, 20:08: See http://retractionwatch.com/2017/04/27/public-health-journals-editorial-board-tells-publisher-grave-concerns-new-editor/ for a recent posting, posted 27 April 2017, about issues at the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    Publisher Taylor & Francis is a member of OASP, the 'Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association'. It is stated at http://oaspa.org/membership/membership-applications/ : "We look to the broader community to help us maintain and improve standards. Serious concerns about potential misconduct by...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    A new comment about this issue has recently been published as 'letter to the editor' in issue 1 of volume 39 of Sandgrouse, the journal of OSME. Teixeira da Silva J.A. 2017. The Basra Reed Warbler saga: where is the original data? Sandgrouse 39 (1): 89. (...
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    Unsubstantiated claims from Basra Reed Warbler study

    Dear all, The two faulty papers on the breeding biology of the Basra Reed Warbler Acrocephalus griseldis are still not yet retracted and we have also not yet received a formal letter from the responsible Managing Editor in which is stated that Al-Sheikhly et al. (2013, 2015) will be retracted...
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