Source One of the world’s leading medical journals has retracted a widely circulated paper published in April that concluded that “both surgical and cotton masks seem to be ineffective in preventin…
In 2022, Guillaume Cabanac noticed something unusual: a study had attracted more than 100 citations in a short span of less than two months of…
Alice Dreger Credit: Dylan Lees Photography In case you didn’t get the memo, the presidents of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Canadian Anthropology…
A former cancer biologist at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida has retracted 19 papers from a single journal. Jin Cheng, who studies how…
The editor in chief, managing editors, and entire editorial board of a mathematics journal all resigned earlier this year following a dispute with their publisher…
The publisher Frontiers has retracted nearly 40 papers across multiple journals linked to “the unethical practice of buying or selling authorship on research papers,” according…
Brandon del Pozo A study by two economists who found opening strip clubs or escort services caused sex crimes in the neighborhood to drop contains…
Donald Morisky Nearly four years after a critic pointed out flaws in a paper about a controversial research tool involved in nearly 20 retractions, the…
Donald Morisky Nearly four years after a critic pointed out flaws in a paper about a controversial research tool involved in nearly 20 retractions, the…
Stuart Pimm One of the world’s foremost conservation biologists is being accused of plagiarism and bullying by a former PhD student, Retraction Watch has learned.…
Carlo Croce A law firm that holds a mortgage on the house of Carlo Croce, a cancer researcher at The Ohio State University, may foreclose…
