Retraction Watch

"Devil’s advocate: the case against preprints in biomedical science." totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2026/03/22/dev…

"The Problem With Promoting ‘Gold Standard Science.’" undark.org/2026/03/20/opi…

University in Netherlands launches investigation into former researcher who manipulated data. voxweb.nl/nieuws/former-…

Guest post: A call to end the ‘impact on conclusions’ test for retraction. retractionwatch.com/2026/03/23/gue…

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

“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…

"STM Plants a Flag About Responsible Use of Research Content in GenAI." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/03/19/stm…

"Even on their own terms university rankings have failed in India." blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

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 ethical risks of open-access agreements being used for authorship leverage.” nature.com/articles/d4158…

"Authorship order and performance from the perspective of field and academic capital: Time for a distributive ethics." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

"Co-authorship as a traded commodity: the experiences of early career education academics." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Awardees announced for program targeting changes to academic incentives. ma3challenge.org/inauguralcohort Read our Q&A about the project. retractionwatch.com/2025/10/06/1-5…

Physicists flag over 50 papers on superheavy elements, leading to 3 retractions. retractionwatch.com/2026/03/23/phy…

Physicists flag over 50 papers on superheavy elements, leading to 3 retractions retractionwatch.com/2026/03/23/phy…

“How to Get There From Here? Barriers and Enablers on the Road Towards Reproducibility in Research.” journal.trialanderror.org/pub/barriers-e…

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

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

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

“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…