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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A: I think the major retractions are due to a rush to publish information about the pandemic. I think that is a ...

More than 40% of chemistry papers retracted in the last two years were pulled because of plagiarism, finds a study published in Chemistry of Materials (2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b00897).

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 ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Misconduct has contributed largely to a rising trend of ...

When there's something really wrong with a published study, the journal can retract it, much like a carmaker recalling a flawed automobile. But are the errors that lead to retractions honest mistakes ...

Publishing research is a key part of a scientist’s career. Most researchers are excited to share their findings with their peers and the wider scientific community, and the news of an article being ...