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Originally Posted by Pugchief
For those of you who "trust the media", "trust the experts", "trust the science" or "trust the government", or think data is unbiased or even consistently accurate:
Recent evidence indicates the constant pressure to generate data and publish papers may be affecting the quality of research and fueling retractions of research papers.
In the past decade, there have been more than 39,000 retractions, and the annual number of retractions is growing by around 23% each year.
Nearly half the retractions were due to issues related to the authenticity of the data.
Plagiarism was the second most common reason research papers were retracted, accounting for 16% of retractions.
Fake peer review was another reason why research papers were retracted.
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Your interpretation is highly misleading because the number of retracted papers represent a tiny fraction of the total number. E.g., in 2022, only 0.2% papers were retracted. Or approximately 10,000 out of 5,000,000 papers.
Most of the retracted papers are published by researchers in non-western countries. Among countries, Saudi Arabia has the highest retraction rate, of 30 per 10,000 articles. I seriously doubt that many NIH-funded studies published in reputable journals get retracted. I’ve seen a few but there’re extremely rare.
The reason for the increase is the use of more sophisticated ai-based software to catch inconsistencies and plagiarism.
You can find more information here, but you may have to pay to access it:
More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 — a new record.