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Nature ran an editorial last week on what might to appear to be a retraction epidemic. There do seem to be more retractions recently, due to a number of potential reasons:

More awareness of misconduct by journals and the community, an increased ability to create and to detect unduly manipulated images, and greater willingness by journals to publish retractions must account for some of this rise. One can also speculate about the increasing difficulty for senior researchers of keeping track of the detail of what is happening in their labs.

Ivan Oransky suggests that when a paper is retracted, the journal should issue a press release, although it’s not clear whether Oransky means the journal should do this if if it doesn’t have a habit of regular press releases.

At F1000 we naturally keep an eye out for retractions, and clearly mark evaluations of such papers accordingly (see http://f1000.com/1032891 for example). These evaluations remain in our index as a matter of scientific record. But is that enough, do you think? Should we do any more?

While you ponder that, what do you think of Oransky’s suggestion, that whenever a journal issues a retraction, it sends out a press release?

Here’s the poll:

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