Retraction Watch

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Retraction Watch is tangentially relevant to AI safety as it documents systemic failures in scientific integrity, which affects the reliability of research AI systems are trained on or that informs AI policy and benchmarking decisions.

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Summary

Retraction Watch is a blog and database that tracks retractions of scientific papers and other issues of research integrity, providing transparency about errors, fraud, and misconduct in academic publishing. It serves as a critical resource for understanding the scale and nature of problems in scientific literature, including paper mills and reproducibility failures. The site maintains a searchable database of over 45,000 retracted papers.

Key Points

•Tracks and reports on scientific paper retractions across all disciplines, exposing fraud, errors, and misconduct in peer-reviewed literature
•Maintains a large searchable retraction database, enabling researchers to identify problematic papers and authors
•Covers paper mills—organized operations that produce fraudulent research for pay—highlighting systemic threats to scientific integrity
•Relevant to AI safety as it documents reliability issues in the scientific evidence base that AI systems are trained on or cite
•Illustrates broader replication crisis concerns that affect trust in empirical research, including AI and ML benchmark studies

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