Feb 6, 2023
Prolific autism researcher has two dozen papers retracted
Posted by Nicholi Avery in category: neuroscience
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An autism researcher lost two dozen papers to retraction in January, eight years after the publisher was made aware of potentially troubling editorial practices. Elsevier, the publisher, cited undisclosed conflicts of interest, duplicated methodology and a โcompromisedโ peer-review process as reasons for the retractions.
The papers were published in Research in Developmental Disabilities and Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders between 2013 and 2014 โ a period when Johnny Matson, then professor of psychology at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge and an author on all of the papers, was editor-in-chief of both journals.
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