{
  "id": 15454,
  "url": "https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/31/retraction-watch-research-factory-investigation-preprint-withdrawals",
  "title": "Retraction Watch story exposing research factory fuels investigations, preprint withdrawals, termination",
  "summary": "A preprint server has withdrawn three papers by an author at the center of a Retraction Watch story revealing a prolific research factory operated through the WhatsApp messaging system. Last week, we reported on Raghabendra Kumar Mahato, a second-year medical student in Nepal, who runs an international research network that churns out conference abstracts and … Continue reading Retraction Watch story exposing research factory fuels investigations, preprint withdrawals, termination",
  "authors": "Alicia Gallegos",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "healthcare,children-education,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-31T14:56:26.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-01T05:10:57.676Z",
  "source_slug": "x-retraction-watch",
  "source_name": "Retraction Watch",
  "source_homepage": "https://retractionwatch.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15454",
  "original_url": "https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/31/retraction-watch-research-factory-investigation-preprint-withdrawals",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}