{
  "id": 19303,
  "url": "https://retractionwatch.com/2026/08/12/biology-journal-pulls-100-articles-and-counting-from-special-issues-for-peer-review-manipulation",
  "title": "Biology journal pulls 100+ articles and counting from special issues for peer review manipulation",
  "summary": "Elsevier’s International Journal of Biological Macromolecules has issued more than 100 retractions and counting for manipulated peer review in guest-edited special issues. The publisher has said one more retraction is coming. Since June the publisher has retracted 120 papers. According to the retraction notices, the journal identified “[s]ystematic, coordinated, and widespread manipulation of the peer-review … Continue reading Biology journal pulls 100+ articles and counting from special issues",
  "authors": "Avery Orrall",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "biotech",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-12T17:20:09.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-14T05:10:49.168Z",
  "source_slug": "x-retraction-watch",
  "source_name": "Retraction Watch",
  "source_homepage": "https://retractionwatch.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19303",
  "original_url": "https://retractionwatch.com/2026/08/12/biology-journal-pulls-100-articles-and-counting-from-special-issues-for-peer-review-manipulation",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}