Retraction Watch

"AI can help with research, but humans must remain accountable," say university executives. timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ai-can…

“Don’t hate the replicator, hate the game“: Economist discusses “internationally crowdsourced surveillance system, designed to keep social scientists honest.” npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-…

Technology journal pulls papers for unauthorized author changes, fictitious emails. retractionwatch.com/2026/03/18/tec…

"Peer review at the service of society." nature.com/articles/s4156…

University in India uses AI tool to detect plagiarism in 95% of PhD theses submitted this year. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/a…

Former cancer researcher found guilty of attempting to take federally funded research to China. houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/…

"Research Culture and Integrity in Japan: A Qualitative Study." link.springer.com/article/10.100…

"Research integrity is locked into an arms race with agentic AI slop." blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

"The Influence of Principlism on the Field of Research Integrity." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"Can aspects of predatory publishing be applied to some mainstream and grey journals?" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"I tried to buy a scientific paper": See a sting unfold on video. youtube.com/watch?v=SEwiOy…

Technology journal pulls papers for unauthorized author changes, fictitious emails. retractionwatch.com/2026/03/18/tec…

“A story of India’s misplaced investment priorities” in research and development. …earchonresearchinstitute.substack.com/p/why-metascie…

“Are supplementary materials the new file drawer?” link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Researchers using UK BioBank inadvertently leaked confidential health records online. theguardian.com/science/2026/m…

"Hallucinated citations produced by generative artificial intelligence may constitute research misconduct when citations function as data in scholarly papers," say researchers. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

“The Perils of Using Generative AI to Perform Research Tasks: Editors’ and Publishers’ Viewpoints.” scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/03/09/gue…

University of Melbourne opens formal investigation into education researcher John Hattie. retractionwatch.com/2026/03/16/uni…

The editor-in-chief on ACS Energy Letters on how AI "may reshape a human-centered model of authorship, peer review, and readership in ways that warrant careful scrutiny." pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

"The Academic Publishing System’s Most Pointless Bottleneck." academeblog.org/2026/03/13/the…