Most people would not have been interested in the sins of Ariel Fernández. In 2013 someone suggested that Mr. Fernández, an Argentine scientist, had contributed bad data to a genomics paper. Two of ...

The Center for Scientific Integrity, the organisation behind the Retraction Watch blog and database, and Crossref, the global infrastructure underpinning research communications, both not-for-profits, ...

BROOKE GLADSTONE: The discussion of bogus journals you just heard put us in mind of the blog, Retraction Watch, launched in 2010. Its name is self-explanatory. It tracks retractions, specifically from ...

A controversial study about video games and guns titled in part “Boom, Headshot!” has been pulled because of issues with the original data, the website Retraction Watch reported recently. The ...

On Thursday (October 25), the blog Retraction Watch, which tracks problematic scientific literature, released an online database of more than 18,000 papers and conference materials that have been ...

In a way, science is the pursuit of truth. So why not ensure that what's written about science remains accurate? Enter Retraction Watch, a website dedicated to tracking retractions made by scientific ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Late last month, the editors of The Lancet Oncology published an “expression of concern” regarding a paper published in 2007 ...

Retraction notices issued by scholarly journals have, to an extent, become clearer over time, a new analysis suggests. The researchers used retraction guidelines issued by the Committee on Publication ...

When Emails Withdrawing Manuscripts Start Repeating Themselves A journal was receiving far more emails than usual asking to withdraw manuscripts that were already being peer reviewed. Some of the ...