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Citing Retracted Research: What Q1 2025 Tells Us About Citation Quality
Analyzing articles published in the first quarter of 2025 reveals a crucial insight: a non-negligible share of published research continues to cite retracted papers, even if those retractions are documented prior to the publication of the article.
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New data pipelines to improve timeliness and transparency on the latest retractions
We’ve worked to engineer new data pipelines, creating our own proprietary database, ensuring that Argos now provides the most up-to-date retraction information available.
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Risky Business!
argos analyzes information from several different sources and then calculates daily a risk score for all articles published since Jan 1st 2014. We take into account the reason for the retraction, its citations, and the history of authors. From this data and more we create a DAG (Directed acyclic graph) which allows us to calculate…
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Scitility PBC, a public benefit corporation, unveils argos, the revolutionary tool that makes visible the hidden patterns and cascading effects of retractions on scientific research.
Scitility PBC (www.scitility.com), a technology first company whose mission is to improve scientific integrity, announced today the launch of its debut product: argos. argos, a groundbreaking free-to-individual solution, that tackles the growing challenge of scientific malpractice. By organizing over a billion pieces of publicly available information, argos empowers publishers, researchers, institutions and funders in their…