Retraction notices — the explanatory statements published alongside papers that have been withdrawn from the literature — have become more clearly worded and easier to access in some cases, according ...

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Almost half of citations to retracted articles in ophthalmology literature occurred after the retractions. Post-retraction citations pose a risk of continued dissemination of false or misleading ...

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 ...

Just before Christmas, the prestigious journal Nature Communications retracted an article that examined the informal mentorship of junior scientists. Among other findings, the paper concluded junior ...

Nathan Georgette experienced the peaks and troughs of a life in science, all before he was old enough to buy a beer. And despite the typical stigma of retracting a scientific paper, Georgette, a ...

Sometimes, something will go wrong with an academic paper, and it will need to be retracted – that's entirely expected. What matters is how academic journals deal with problems when they arise. In ...

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Science is an activity performed by humans, so it’s inevitable that some of the scientific papers we cover will end up being wrong. As we noted yesterday, the cause can range from factors completely ...