Almost half of citations occurred after retraction, posing potential risk to scientific in ...

Many researchers’ determination to prove a vaping-cancer link remains undimmed. They often seem only too willing to cut ...

Research papers that list Chinese institutions account for more than half of the retractions across 10 academic publishers, ...

However, this ranking contradicts the 2023 Nature publication by Richard Van Noorden, which identified Saudi Arabia as the country with the highest retraction rate, without listing Ethiopia among the ...

J ournal retractions are a necessary part of the scientific process. They allow the scientific community both to correct honest mistakes and to deal with misconduct and even fraud. But in recent years ...

Research into nicotine use by young Aussies and a study on an Eastern gray kangaroo pox virus have something in common. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Both papers ...

Your news story highlighted the high retraction rate of publications produced by Chinese hospitals (see Nature 638, 596–599; 2025). This has indeed been a problem. But the situation is improving. In ...

According to a recent study, women are less likely than men to engage in misconduct when publishing biomedical research. The analysis, published in PLoS One, found that women were markedly ...

Just before Christmas, the prestigious journal Nature Communications retracted an article that examined the informal mentorship of junior scientists. Among other findings, the paper concluded junior ...

The Nature Portfolio journals will issue corrections, retraction statements and other post-publication updates including Editor’s Notes and Editorial Expressions of Concern on published content. The ...