Retraction Watch Revisited

Retraction Watch Revisited The Retraction Watch website was highlighted in a 2020 Inside Science Resources post (Kipnis, 2020). Several features of the website were mentioned including the blog, the Retraction Watch Leaderboard and the Retraction Watch Database. New features of the website include the Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker, a list of retracted papers on COVID-19 as well as the continued growth of the Retraction … Continue reading Retraction Watch Revisited

Research Resource Identification (RRID)

In 2016 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began to require grant applications to be reviewed with respect to reproducibility criteria (see Notice NOT-OD-15-103, Enhancing Reproducibility through Rigor and Transparency). This policy was a response to years of increasing concern about the reproducibility of scientific results: One barrier to reproducibility is a lack of sufficient detail about the materials and tools used in research. A … Continue reading Research Resource Identification (RRID)