Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Retractions are a sign that science is working as it should. But ...
However, this ranking contradicts the 2023 Nature publication by Richard Van Noorden, which identified Saudi Arabia as the country with the highest retraction rate, without listing Ethiopia among the ...
J ournal retractions are a necessary part of the scientific process. They allow the scientific community both to correct honest mistakes and to deal with misconduct and even fraud. But in recent years ...
Research into nicotine use by young Aussies and a study on an Eastern gray kangaroo pox virus have something in common. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Both papers ...
According to a recent study, women are less likely than men to engage in misconduct when publishing biomedical research. The analysis, published in PLoS One, found that women were markedly ...
Just before Christmas, the prestigious journal Nature Communications retracted an article that examined the informal mentorship of junior scientists. Among other findings, the paper concluded junior ...
Your news story highlighted the high retraction rate of publications produced by Chinese hospitals (see Nature 638, 596–599; 2025). This has indeed been a problem. But the situation is improving. In ...
Associate Professor and MTP Connect REDI Industry Fellow, University of Technology Sydney When scientists make important discoveries, both big and small, they typically publish their findings in ...