At least 800 research studies published in crystallography and exotic-chemistry journals originate from a paper mill, a new study...

There’s ample evidence that retracted papers — 2,500 per year and growing — continue to attract citations that do not mention the fact...

An automated tool is targeting an issue that has plagued science for decades: retracted studies cited in newly published papers without...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences has retracted a paper after concerns surfaced from a researcher who claims to have supervised the...

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