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, ...

Almost half of citations occurred after retraction, posing potential risk to scientific in ...

Most researchers whose papers are retracted owing to an honest mistake find the ordeal stressful, according to a survey of almost 100 authors 1. The survey focused on retractions that had occurred ...

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a leading Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching center, is seeking retractions of six studies and corrections on another 31 papers amid allegations that some of ...

Genetics articles are retracted at an estimated rate of 0.15 percent, which is about four times higher than for all disciplines (this includes genetics) listed in the Retraction Watch database, ...

Almost 59% of the chemistry papers retracted in the last two decades were pulled due to research misconduct, and the process often took more than a year, a new analysis finds. Research misconduct is ...

According to a recent study, women are less likely than men to engage in misconduct when publishing biomedical research. The analysis, published in PLoS One, found that women were markedly ...

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute initiated retractions or corrections to 37 papers authored by four senior researchers following allegations of data falsification, a DFCI research integrity officer ...

Chemistry journals take just under 3 years to retract papers plagued with self-plagiarism, according to a new analysis. The study was published by Accountability in Research earlier this month. It ...

New Delhi: Research institutes and universities in India will now be penalised for producing poor-quality research papers. Professor Anil Sahasrabudhe, chairperson of the executive committee of the ...