Dalmeet Singh Chawla is a freelance science journalist based in London. Retractions can have profound effects on researchers’ careers, sometimes in unexpected ways, a study that tracked the career ...

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The large language model–based chatbot ChatGPT fails to highlight the validity concerns with scientific papers that have been retracted or have been the subject of other editorial notices, according ...

Your news story highlighted the high retraction rate of publications produced by Chinese hospitals (see Nature 638, 596–599; 2025). This has indeed been a problem. But the situation is improving. In ...