Not a Good Year for Research Integrity
Last year a disheartening record was set for research integrity in scholarly publishing. In 2023, over 10,000 research articles were stamped “retracted” reducing them to ghost research. The previous year the number was short of 6,000, itself a retraction record. Clearly something is amiss in the quiet halls of academe.
When a paper is marked retracted, or rather RETRACTED, on page after page, the journal’s editors and publishers have determined that it has a problem well beyond “correction” or “update.” Corrections, for example, will be issued for a number of Claudine Gay’s articles, as the former Harvard president adds . . . [more]