Retraction Watch wrote last year about Marcel Dinger, dean of science at the University of Sydney, who was a coauthor on five papers with multiple references that had been retracted. In May 2024, Alexander Magazinov, a scientific sleuth and software engineer based in Kazakhstan, had flagged the papers on PubPeer for "references of questionable reliability". Dinger told us at the time he intended to work with editors to determine whether the five papers should be corrected or retracted.

In May, 2025 one of the papers, published in 2021 in The Journal of Drug Targeting, was retracted – with a statement that the authors didn’t agree with the decision. "As the conclusions of the paper were not impacted by the retracted citations, the authors felt that a corrigendum was an appropriate measure to uphold the integrity of the scholarly record", Dinger said.

One of the other flagged papers received a lengthy correction in December, 2024, which the authors agreed with. Dinger told us he "contacted the associated journals in June last year with corrigendums", but the other three papers remain unmarked.

Source https://retractionwatch.com/2025/07/14/university-dean-marcel-dinger-correct-paper-retraction/

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