Academic journals in Russia are retracting more than 800 papers following a probe into unethical publication practices by a commission appointed by the Russi...

Criminology researchers are retracting five studies that have sparked a bitter battle over potential scientific misconduct and issues of race. The episode ha...

More than 40% of chemistry papers retracted in the last two years were pulled because of plagiarism, according to a new study. The next most common reason fo...

I spoke to Heather Goldstone of Living Lab Radio about the Loss of Confidence project, which I recently wrote a feature article about for Undark Magazine. IM...

Many areas of science are facing questions over the reproducibility of findings reported in scholarly literature. Researchers haven't always been the best at...

The Physics Society of Iran (PSI) has voiced concern over a recent case of faked peer review by an Iranian researcher. The full article was published at Phys...

A university in Singapore has revoked a second researcher's PhD following a major misconduct scandal. The full story was published at Retraction Watch. IMAGE...

Journals of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) — which also publishes Chemistry World — have today retracted five papers due to a compromised peer review p...

A study that seemed to show people can read and do math with their unconscious minds has been called into question by researchers. Read the full story at Sno...

High-profile journal Science is retracting a scientific study about how human pollution is harming fish, after months of questions about the validity of the ...

A journal has decided to retract a 2016 study because of concerns that its data on the safety of liver transplantation involved organs sourced from executed ...

Environmental Geochemistry and Health has retracted two papers after an investigation suggested that the peer-review process had been compromised. The full a...

The Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences has retracted a paper after concerns surfaced from a researcher who claims to have supervised the research but was no...

The number of retraction notices that are published have increased by 10-fold in the last decade despite the number of papers only increasing by 44%. This ar...