February 21, 2013
Ivan Oransky, Co-founder, Retraction Watch
Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus coauthor a blog titled Retraction Watch, which aims to increase the transparency around retraction of academic papers. We spoke to Oransky as a part of our investigation of the cause of meta-research. Some subjects that Oransky discussed are:
- Reasons for papers being retracted, the frequency of retractions across fields, and Oransky and Marcus’ interest in creating a retraction database
- Efforts to improve the availability of information about post-publication peer review
- Online repositories of preprints of academic papers
- Ways in which scientific research could be improved