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 ...

The number of retractions issued for research articles in 2023 has passed 10,000 — smashing annual records — as publishers struggle to clean up a slew of sham papers and peer-review fraud. Among large ...

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 ...

J ournal retractions are a necessary part of the scientific process. They allow the scientific community both to correct honest mistakes and to deal with misconduct and even fraud. But in recent years ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

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large language model–based chatbot ChatGPT fails to highlight the validity concerns with scientific papers that have been retracted or have been the subject of other editorial notices, according ...

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, ...