In recent years, the number of retracted journal articles has been on the rise. A study published by Nature in 2023 revealed that more than 10,000 research papers were retracted that year—a record high1.

Crossref's recent acquisition of the Retraction Watch data will enhance the quality, transparency, and completeness of metadata on retractions in academic publications. In this post, we present some of our preliminary analysis.

In the recent RDM Symposium for HKUST researchers, we had a lively seminar on data integrity and publishing with two talks. Last week we summarized the first talk; this post reports the second part.

Data is the pillar of integrity in published research. How do journal editors detect integrity issues? How can publishers support integrity? A recent seminar for HKUST researchers brought up a good discussion.