Argos is a powerful retraction service that uncovers hidden patterns and cascade effects of retractions. With daily updates, personalized alerts, and seamless API integration, Argos helps institutions identify retracted articles, flag areas of concern, and highlights problematic content and collaborations at your institution, fostering a culture of accountability and trust.
Built on a robust foundation, our platform enables daily assessment of institutional collaborations with unmatched precision. With access to over 1 billion citations, 50 million articles, and 95 million author profiles, it offers one of the most comprehensive academic data resources available. Our real-time dataset on retractions and their impact is the most complete in the industry, providing critical insight into research integrity. Combined with daily risk assessments, this empowers users to make informed, data-driven decisions with confidence.
Gain private, institution-specific insights with secure analytics designed for research oversight. Monitor and discover articles connected to your organization in real time. Keep track of funding to ensure responsible allocation of resources, and stay on top of high-risk articles across your portfolio with proactive monitoring tools. Tailor the platform to your institution’s unique standards with client-based customization, and receive timely alerts on retraction cascades to understand their broader implications and mitigate downstream risks.
Enhance research oversight with robust tools designed for scale and precision. Seamlessly integrate via API to perform rigorous integrity checks across large datasets. Validate references at scale to prevent reliance on retracted works and maintain citation quality. Automatically flag high-risk articles by analyzing authorship history, and uncover trends with historical analysis to support proactive decision-making. Monitor journals to identify those heavily impacted by retractions, and search by DOI to quickly trace and assess individual articles across your member network.
17% more retractions in total – most comprehensive source of retractions
167% more retractions in the past 12 months – we record retractions as they happen
18,000 articles in 2025 flagged with known retracted references
High-risk articles are 79x more likely to be retracted