Stop requiring artificial metrics like requiring people to publish papers for advancement or tenure. It’s like when you were in college and they required a word count on a paper. It doesn’t make the paper better or the argument better, just longer.

[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I find it a bit misleading to focus on retractions. Articles being retracted is a necessary thing, and there is nothing more suspicious than a place that never retracted anything.

What matters here is obviously the nature of the retractions, the source of the problem, which generally means whether it's a fraud or not.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Who did the retraction is also important. An author voluntarily retracting their own paper is different from the journal retracting the paper.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This paper shows that the university's with the most retractions are actually the least woke and should be the only ones you listen to

--This paper has been retracted