A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional. Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal…

Be-Art/iStock New retraction guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics include more specific details about when to retract a paper, many of which address paper mill activity. For instance…

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that “Sneaked references: Fabricated reference metadata distort citation counts,” written by Lonni Besançon, Guil...

A study on how conversations can change minds grabbed headlines when it was published — and again five months later when retracted. “Gay Advocates Can Shift Same-Sex Marriage Views,” read the New Y…

A Sage journal that holds the distinction of highest number of retracted articles in the Retraction Watch Database likely made in excess of $400,000 in revenue from those papers, by our calculation…

Publishers want to put out more papers with less editorial staff, all while charging scientists more to publish. Editors have had enough.

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