Retraction Watch

iStock A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges. The case, which became unsealed July 30, claims Elsevier

Surendra/Adobe Stock Around 400 U.S. patents contain at least one citation to a retracted scientific paper, a newstudy has found. The analysis, posted last month to the preprint server SSRN, analyzed granted patents in the United States in PatentsView, a

In an effort to treat their daughter's genetic developmental disorder, parents in China paid respected researchers millions in Chinese yuan.

Jason Arday In September 2025, Times Higher Education had a bombshell story in the works: A star sociology professor at the University of Cambridge had allegedly plagiarized parts of his Ph.D. thesis and several journal articles. In one of the articles, t

Shanghai Jiao Tong University says it is investigating after a report alleges the child died after receiving treatment from Qiu Zilong.

Mike Mozart/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Tayor & Francis is investigating two papers about the weed killer Roundup following claims the articles were ghostwritten by the company that developed the herbicide. The review comes after an Elsevier journal last year retr

dem10/istock With an h-index of 75, computer scientist Thippa Reddy Gadekallu ranks among the world's most highly cited researchers. But the speed and means of his ascent to those lofty heights of scholarship has been as remarkable as the achievement itse

A dataset on Kaggle purportedly showing people who have had a stroke includes images of Sylvester Stallone from Rambo and other celebrities. Source Scrolling through an online image dataset, Adrian Barnett, a statistician at the Queensland University of T

Peru's Ministry of Education headquarters in Lima.ANDINA/Editora Perú In an ongoing effort to combat scientific misconduct, Peru has passed new rules that bar research faculty at public universities there from receiving special bonuses if they've had one

A widely reported finding that the risk of divorce increases when wives fall ill - but not when men do - is invalid, thanks to a short string of mistaken coding that negates the origina…