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Retraction Watch

Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process.

  • By Alison Abritis, Ellie Kincaid
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly five posts per week
  • First post on

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Most recent posts

Weekend reads: Shoddy commentaries flood journals; key hydroxychloroquine paper retracted; a researcher confesses
Dear RW readers, can you spare $25? The week at Retraction Watch featured: EcoHealth Alliance retracts and replaces paper on potential origin of COVID-19 in bats Journal won’t retract paper that involved human organ transplants …
On , by Ivan Oransky, 776 words
EcoHealth Alliance retracts and replaces paper on potential origin of COVID-19 in bats
The authors of an influential but controversial 2020 paper on the activity of bat coronaviruses in China which proposed the animals as a “likely origin” for the virus that causes COVID-19 have retracted their work …
On , by Ellie Kincaid, 534 words
Journal won’t retract paper that involved human organ transplants in China
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation (JHLT) has decided against retracting a November 2024 paper that violated the ethics policy of the publication. After publishing the paper, which describes a new mechanical circulatory support …
On , by Dalmeet Singh Chawla, 648 words