Retraction Check
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Free reference checker

Screen your references for retractionsbefore your reviewers do.

Every reference is checked for retractions and other post-publication notices — each named for what it is, with every notice on record, not only the latest.

A retracted reference is usually identified by someone else: a referee, an editor, or a reader after publication. Better to find it while it is still yours to correct.

Evidence

The retraction is published.
The citing papers stay silent.

Only 1 in 20 citations of a retracted paper says that it was retracted.1 The other nineteen read as ordinary references.

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1. Hsiao T-K, Schneider J. Quant Sci Stud. 2021;2(4):1144–69. doi:10.1162/qss_a_00155 — the study reports 5.4% of citations, which this page rounds to one in twenty.