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The biggest reason for the surge is the emergence of paper mills — for-profit organizations that generate bogus research for sale to people who want to be able to claim they are published scientists. “Among large research-producing nations, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia and China have the highest retraction rates over the past two decades,” the journal Nature wrote in December.
The tabulation of retractions is done by Retraction Watch, a nonprofit. The database is maintained by another nonprofit, Crossref. (The database doesn’t yet reflect this high total for 2023 because cases are still being entered.)
I asked Dr. Ivan Oransky, a physician and journalist who is a co-founder of Retraction Watch, whether the surge could be temporary because the profession might be weeding out years of bad work all at once. He wrote: “I don’t expect retraction rates to drop but instead to continue to rise. We’re not at peak retraction yet.”
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