From Retraction Watch:
An article that proposed potential benefits of private equity firms investing in autism service providers has been removed from the journal in which it was published.
The author
is founder and CEO of the Behavioral Health Center of Excellence (BHCOE), a company that offers accreditation for organizations that provide ABA services, and she co-founded the Autism Investor Summit, an annual meeting focused on the business side of autism services. She is also an advisory board member for Calex Partners, a firm that provides advice on mergers and acquisitions for autism-related businesses.
Blatant self-interest, but that wasn’t the issue. She seems to have had, um, a ChatGPT problem:
The article titles provided in 22 of the references do not appear in the cited journals’ table of contents or in Google search results.