Many researchers’ determination to prove a vaping-cancer link remains undimmed. They often seem only too willing to cut corners and overclaim.
Research papers that list Chinese institutions account for more than half of the retractions across 10 academic publishers, ...
It appears as a terse statement — a few hundred words invalidating the claims made in a published paper. Retractions are the prevailing method for correcting gross inaccuracies in the scientific ...
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 ...
Mistakes are part of science. But setting the record straight promptly and clearly can help to avoid a career blot. After 18 months of complex testing and re-testing, Pamela Ronald became certain that ...
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 ...