Retraction notices — the explanatory statements published alongside papers that have been withdrawn from the literature — have become more clearly worded and easier to access in some cases, according ...

Retractions correct the scientific record, but they have stigma attached to them. Some in the research community want that to change.

University of Minnesota academics were forced to retract an article they wrote about "structural racism" at the institution because its claims were "inaccurate, misleading, or false," according to a ...

Last week, the coauthor of a widely publicized study from December showing that discussions with gay canvassers could sway voter opinions about gay marriage laws asked the journal that published it to ...

Most people would not have been interested in the sins of Ariel Fernández. In 2013 someone suggested that Mr. Fernández, an Argentine scientist, had contributed bad data to a genomics paper. Two of ...