On Christmas Eve, 9 “peer-reviewed” economics papers were quietly retracted by Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher.
This includes 7 papers in the International Review of Financial Analysis (a good journal—it has an 18% acceptance rate):
Plus two more retractions in Finance Research Letters (29% acceptance rate):
Two days later, three more papers were retracted at the International Review of Economics & Finance (30% acceptance rate):
Combined, these 12 papers have 5,104 citations.
All 12 papers had one thing in common: Brian M Lucey, Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Trinity College Dublin — the #1 ranked economics and business school in Ireland — as a co-author.
Lucey published 56 papers in 2025, one paper every 6.5 days. Lmao.
Lucey has published 44 papers in Finance Research Letters alone, an Elsevier journal he edited.
Professor Brian Lucey
I emailed Lucey for comment, but he did not respond.
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