Research Ethics/Scientific Article Retraction

According to the organization website, "COPE is committed to educate and support editors, publishers and those involved in publication ethics with the aim of moving the culture of publishing towards one where ethical practices becomes a normal part of the publishing culture."

Use the metadata tab to search for retracted literature.

"HelioBLAST is a free service provided by HelioText. The HelioBLAST text similarity engine finds text records that are similar to the submitted query...Here, your query is searched against the citations (abstract and titles) in Medline/PubMed." -- https://helioblast.heliotext.com/

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Research Integrity

"Zotero can now help you avoid relying on retracted publications in your research by automatically checking your database and documents for works that have been retracted." Zotero provides this service in partnership with Retraction Watch.

A commercial subscription product. There is a limited free level at the time of this writing (2/2021) "Launched in November, Scite Reference Check scans new article PDFs for references to retracted papers, and posts both the citing and retracted papers on Twitter. It also flags when new studies cite older ones that have issued corrections, errata, withdrawals, or expressions of concern. An extension of scite.ai, a platform that monitors whether research findings are supported or contradicted by subsequent studies, Scite Reference Check keeps track of retracted papers by trawling through Crossref, PubMed, and the Retraction Watch Database."

Retraction Watch blog interview article with Caitlin Bakker (Univ. of Minnesota)

Retraction Watch blog interview article with Gali Halevi

Who has the most retractions? Here is an unofficial list from Retraction Watch

A list from Retraction Watch