Retraction Watch notes the achievements of a certain Joachim Boldt:
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery has retracted two papers from the early 1990s on which Boldt was the first author – bringing the retraction tally for the disgraced German anesthesiologist to 96, by our count. Both articles were found to contain manipulated data.
I was busy being aghast – and then discovered Retraction Watch keeps a leaderboard, presumably for those of us who never want to be without a scoreboard. Dr. Boldt is … #2. #1? A certain Yoshitake Fujii. Although, to be fair to the other contenders, RW is using multiple sources and not just their reporting, so there may be duplicates or missing data to be considered. Still, 183 is certainly a number to be … proud … ashamed … of.
