The push for higher productivity within academic institutions often prioritizes quantity over quality, leading to issues like sloppy science and even fraud. Recent analyses indicate that the retraction rate for published articles has significantly increased, tripling in a decade. This trend highlights the consequences of prioritizing publication metrics, with many retractions stemming from dishonesty rather than honest errors. As the scrutiny of scientific literature intensifies, the data on retractions serve not only to correct the scientific record but also to highlight these integrity issues on an institutional level.
Many universities and research institutions around the world prize high productivity, which comes at a cost, encouraging sloppy science, plagiarism, and falsified research.
A rise in retracted research has emerged as researchers scrutinize articles, with 0.2% of published works in 2022 being retracted, a tripling in a decade.
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