{
  "id": 28160,
  "title": "Retraction Watch story exposing research factory fuels investigations, preprint withdrawals, termination",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/31/retraction-watch-story-exposing-research-factory-fuels-investigations",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-07-31T14:56:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Retraction Watch",
    "slug": "retraction-watch",
    "url": "https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/31/retraction-watch-research-factory-investigation-preprint-withdrawals/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A preprint server has withdrawn three papers by an author at the center of a Retraction Watch story revealing a prolific research factory operated through the WhatsApp messaging system.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…",
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  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Retraction Watch",
        "title": "Journal, university investigations launched into gene-editing death following Science-Retraction Watch reporting",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/30/journal-university-investigations-launched-into-gene-editing-death",
        "published": "2026-07-30T18:33:36.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}