Nature has retracted a paper after an investigation at a U.K. institution found the first author — then a doctoral student — manipulated data.  The paper, which looked at the sensitivity of lu…

A World Bank report on obesity trends with at least 14 fake references in the text has been removed from the website and is being reviewed by the organization following a Retraction Watch inquiry.&…

The BMJ has issued an expression of concern for a paper claiming stem cell therapy can reduce the risk of heart failure. The move comes after sleuths and scientists critiqued the “complete mismatch…

Examples of “boilerplate” text used in the suspect reviews.M.A. Oviedo-Garcia et al/medRxiv 2025 A network of peer reviewers in Italy is targeting medical journals, threatening “both the scientific…

A journal says it will retract a 2019 paper on an Alzheimer’s treatment after an institutional investigation found research misconduct, according to emails seen by Retraction Watch. The move …

3dalia/iStock What would you do if you discovered your name in a list of experts on sex robots despite having never studied sex robots?  That was the situation for one rather panicked research…

A comparison of the images and an overlay, provided by a sleuth. On April Fools’ Day 10 years ago, radiologist Matt Skalski took part in a website’s annual challenge to prank the radiology communit…

George Church A paper coauthored by geneticist George Church has been retracted following an internal review at a university where several coauthors are based. The article appeared in the Proceedin…

Once upon a time, a long time ago, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched, detailing in the first post why retractions matt…

Clarivate will no longer include citations to and from retracted papers when calculating journal impact factors, the company announced today.  The change comes after some have wondered over th…

A new study compares retraction rates between men and women. Pexels Longtime Retraction Watch readers know the scientists on our Leaderboard have changed over the years. But one characteristic has …

A paper that made the rounds last year for its blatantly “irrelevant” citations has now been retracted.  Elsevier’s International Journal of Hydrogen Energy published “Origin of the distinct s…

The editorial board of an architecture journal has resigned after its parent association cancelled an upcoming theme issue titled “Palestine.”   The Journal of Architectural Education pla…

A journal has retracted five papers about the appearance, sexual behavior and attractiveness of women.  Nicolas Guéguen, a professor of marketing at the Université de Bretagne-Sud in France, w…

A journal has retracted three papers after an investigation revealed one of the authors falsely claimed he was affiliated with the United States Department of Agriculture. All three retraction noti…

D. Paul Sullins A four-year-old paper claiming conversion therapy reduced same-sex thoughts in gay men has been retracted after criticism from other researchers prompted further review of the work.…

Two papers on a novel approach for flood prediction have been retracted for “substantial overlap” between the works. The authors, including Debopam Acharya, dean of the School of Computing at DIT U…

Neurosurgical Review has begun retracting scores of commentaries and  letters to the editor after getting inundated by AI-generated manuscripts. At the top of the affiliations list: Saveetha U…

Dario Alessi In 2018, a biochemist in Scotland became aware of image irregularities in two of his papers through comments on PubPeer, each in a different journal. The researcher, Dario Alessi, a pr…

The editor-in-chief of a journal updated a retraction notice to acknowledge the data in the paper were “completely plagiarized” following allegations in a letter to the editor that were the subject…

Nearly 20 years after the publication of a paper on phytoestrogens in postmenopausal women, one of the authors said the study had never been performed, according to a recently published retraction …

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The Sage journal American Surgeon has issued a mass expression of concern for 116 articles.  The expression of concern states the journal “was made aware” of “concerning author activity” on th…

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Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences More than a dozen universities have used “questionable authorship practices” to inflate their publication metrics, authors of a new study say. O…

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