The problematic use of guest editors was spotlighted last week when a genetics journal retracted nearly an entire special ...

Retraction notices — the explanatory statements published alongside papers that have been withdrawn from the literature — have become more clearly worded and easier to access in some cases, according ...

Almost half of citations occurred after retraction, posing potential risk to scientific in ...

When my colleague Adam Marcus, editorial director at Medscape, and I launched the blog Retraction Watch in 2010, we didn’t realize we were riding a wave. At the time, we thought journals were issuing ...

The most recent semiannual report (SAR) to Congress issued by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Inspector General (OIG) details five misconduct findings NSF made based on prior OIG ...

Oversight review into US research on newborn piglets led by Prof William Armstead, which has been called ‘utterly reprehensible’ The federal Office of Research Integrity (ORI) has begun an ...

Investigation found peer review process was compromised and topics were outside journal's ...

Most people would not have been interested in the sins of Ariel Fernández. In 2013 someone suggested that Mr. Fernández, an Argentine scientist, had contributed bad data to a genomics paper. Two of ...

When a 2012 study came out suggesting that a certain type of genetically modified corn caused cancer in rats, many were skeptical. Since then, one scientific group after another has said that the ...