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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation. Bad incentives in academia are leading to a surge in ...

Retractions in rheumatology literature have increased “substantially” over the past 35 years, largely due to misconduct, according to findings published in Arthritis Care & Research. “Although still ...

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 ...

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 ...

When my colleague Adam Marcus, editorial director at Medscape, and I launched the blog Retraction Watch in 2010, we didn’t realize we were riding a wave. At the time, we thought journals were issuing ...

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large language model–based chatbot ChatGPT fails to highlight the validity concerns with scientific papers that have been retracted or have been the subject of other editorial notices, according ...

However, this ranking contradicts the 2023 Nature publication by Richard Van Noorden, which identified Saudi Arabia as the country with the highest retraction rate, without listing Ethiopia among the ...

Mistakes happen — in life, in the lab, and, inevitably, in research papers, too. Journals use corrections and retractions to resolve those mistakes. But one particularly high-profile case is now ...