Research papers that list Chinese institutions account for more than half of the retractions across 10 academic publishers, ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Retractions are a sign that science is working as it should. But ...

Scientific knowledge builds and expands on previous scientific results. Publication of peer-reviewed scientific articles is the process by which results are shared with the scientific community and ...

Many universities and research institutions around the world prize high productivity. They encourage researchers to publish more articles and accrue more citations; higher counts can signal that an ...

Retractions — when an academic journal withdraws an already published study — are a big deal for researchers. Such withdrawals correct the record and remove faulty information from circulation, and ...

J ournal retractions are a necessary part of the scientific process. They allow the scientific community both to correct honest mistakes and to deal with misconduct and even fraud. But in recent years ...

Retraction is not effective in reducing online attention to problematic research papers, according to a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The study doesn’t support ...

That complaint sparked eight months of back-and-forth between Sage and the study authors, in which every single critique about the research was directly refuted. Despite this good-faith effort by the ...

Pacira BioSciences has backed down a bit in its lawsuit against the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), withdrawing its motion to force immediate retraction of a trio of articles about the ...

While the rate of retractions has been rising in recent years, it may not mean more scientists are fudging the data. Some experts believe text comparison tools and other means for catching plagiarism ...

Several high-profile papers on COVID-19 research have come under fire from people in the scientific community in recent weeks. Two articles addressing the safety of certain drugs when taken by ...