Last week, Eilish headed to the UKSG annual conference in Glasgow (more on that later!). The keynote speaker for day one happened to be a UWL open research team favourite; Ivan Oransky, one of the creators of the Retraction Watch blog. Oransky is a distinguished journalist who has written on science and medicine for consumer and trade press for many years. When explaining his precis for starting the blog with his colleague, Adam Marcus, he cited a 2008 paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics:

Although retractions are on average occurring sooner after publication than in the past, citation analysis shows that they are not being recognised by subsequent users of the work. Findings suggest that editors and institutional officials are taking more responsibility for correcting the scientific record but that reasons published in the retraction notice are not always reliable. More aggressive means of notification to the scientific community appear to be necessary.

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Happy reading!