Retraction notices — the explanatory statements published alongside papers that have been withdrawn from the literature — have become more clearly worded and easier to access in some cases, according ...

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 ...

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 ...

Explore Retraction Watch's coverage of scandals in science, including Bharat Aggarwal's alleged image manipulation in cancer research. Sometimes these slips are merely technical, requiring nothing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alert Cancer Researcher Faked Data in Work Funded by Nine NIH Grants Brand, who "neither admits nor denies ORI's findings of research misconduct," agreed to have any research of hers funded by the ...