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muriel_volestrangler

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7. Isn't the asterisk for 'corresponding author'?

Fri Jul 10, 2026, 10:31 AM

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The retraction talks about "as previously requested by the corresponding and senior co-author", which I think is Li; the "first author" admitted to fabrication and plagiarism, which I think is Djebbari. The orcid.org link shows Li has been a professor since 2006; that for Djebbari shows him as a PhD candidate since 2021: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3890-6522

I'd suspect she's his supervisor; he did the dodgy stuff, and she didn't catch it (whether someone else told her, or she figured it out herself, who knows. Or worse, she had known, and someone else went public, and she had to admit it)

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Edit: He HAS LOST his job for the scale of this retraction. [View all] NNadir Thursday OP

Isn't the first author male? mwmisses4289 Thursday #1

Edit: The first author is Khaled Axel Djebbari. NNadir Thursday #3

Thank for the explanation. mwmisses4289 Thursday #4

Isn't the asterisk for 'corresponding author'? muriel_volestrangler Yesterday #7

You are right, and I have made a serious error - a brain fart from writing with too little sleep - in stating it was... NNadir Yesterday #8

Please note my correction. I was a little out of it when writing the post as my soporific was kicking in... NNadir Yesterday #9

Generative AI often seems to bring out the worst in a lot of AI users. It's great for fraud. highplainsdem Thursday #2

Oh, she just misunderstood the meaning of "U Conn". eppur_se_muova Yesterday #5

Love science. Self correcting over time. multigraincracker Yesterday #6