A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.

An era-defining mathematics claim raises questions over how AI tools credit earlier work.

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I realized relying on AI was making me a less critical scientist, this clinician-researcher writes

Scientists share help and advice on how they got their research discussions flowing.

I was recently asked to review a paper that piqued my curiosity. From the abstract it sounded as if it was a secondary analysis of a datas...

In this chapter we explore how writing differs from arithmetic with respect to automation, and what is lost when we hand off the work of writing to a machine.

COPE's Core Principles are the ethical foundation of scholarly publishing and articulate the values that underpin responsible, transparent, and fair publishing practices.

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Court dismisses biochemist’s lawsuit against MD Anderson Journal retr…

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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The Cabinet Manual is an important guide to the workings of the UK’s uncodified constitution, providing an accessible roadmap for ministers, officials and the public. But the document has not been …

The challenges and opportunities of monitoring research cultures and environments

How much research bureaucracy is enough?

Diamond OA is frequently associated with Latin America or European community-led initiatives, with China left out of the conversation. It shouldn’t be.

This is a tech support post which answers questions about COUNTER and the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.

Creative Commons outlines their framework to restore trust, strengthen participation, and embed public interest values into the AI ecosystem.

With CC Signals, Creative Commons wants to help authors put rules on use of their licensed content for AI training.

Early May, I attended the 2026 World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This conference is held every two years. In 2024, I went to the WCRI in Athens, Greece, and in…

World Congress on Research Integrity 2026, for the first time, included dozens of presentations on paper mills, organizations that sell papers, co-authorship

This viewpoint presents a community-endorsed checklist defining minimal light microscopy metadata to improve rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in re

Within hours of researchers from prestigious institutions discovering they were listed as authors on a fabricated paper, the website for the journal and publisher has been taken down.  Cardiol…

On Friday I attended (virtually) a workshop organised by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine on Enhancing Scientific...

Members of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination.