Of course, I can't speak for them, but I've seen over the 14 years that Adam Marcus and I have been running Retraction Watch that with more and more attention, comes more and more cleaning up and retractions. I think there's a clear relationship with that. There's also more ability for what we call “sleuths”, heroic people who find the issues in the literature, to do something—in other words, to make those findings public. I think the combination of those things has had an important effect, but there's much more to be done.
On December 3rd, 2024. See this statement in context.