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Many universities and research institutions around the world prize high productivity. They encourage researchers to publish more articles and accrue more citations; higher counts can signal that an ...

The retraction rate for European biomedical-science papers increased fourfold between 2000 and 2021, a study of thousands of retractions has found. Two-thirds of these papers were withdrawn for ...

Mistakes happen — in life, in the lab, and, inevitably, in research papers, too. Journals use corrections and retractions to resolve those mistakes. But one particularly high-profile case is now ...

Scientific knowledge builds and expands on previous scientific results. Publication of peer-reviewed scientific articles is the process by which results are shared with the scientific community and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation. Bad incentives in academia are leading to a surge in ...

Publishing research is a key part of a scientist’s career. Most researchers are excited to share their findings with their peers and the wider scientific community, and the news of an article being ...

Retraction is not effective in reducing online attention to problematic research papers, according to a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The study doesn’t support ...

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Any project, supported or not by a committee, that is currently being worked on or is considered active, and will have an end date. Scientific knowledge builds and expands on previous scientific ...