SoT Special: Retraction Watch

October 21, 2011

It is estimated that in 2006 alone there were 1.3 million papers published in 23,750 scientific journals. But what happens when a paper gets ‘unpublished’ – withdrawn or retracted?

I caught up with Dr. Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus, founders of Retraction Watch. A blog that follows retractions as they happen and investigates the stories behind them, Retraction Watch uncovers a world of falsified data, plagiarism and ethics violations.

RetractionWatch

You might also like to read David Colquhoun’s article in The Guardian that looks into the flaws of the peer-review system.

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