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February 14, 2022 — Third Iron, LLC, a leading information technology company developing innovative services for libraries, publishers, and their users, announced the integration of article retraction data provided by Retraction Watch into their LibKey and BrowZine services.
“Citation of retracted articles can degrade original research and trigger negative domino effects on scholarship and education,” said Kendall Bartsch, CEO at Third Iron. “However, because retraction status is unevenly communicated by publishers, aggregators that host content, and databases that index articles, it is easy for researchers to unwittingly incorporate retracted articles into their papers.” John Seguin, Third Iron President and Chief Librarian, continued, “By incorporating Retraction Watch data, we alert researchers of an article’s retracted status when they use BrowZine or, via our LibKey services, when researchers find a retracted article in a database or on a website – regardless of whether the article has been labeled as retracted by the publisher. This fills a big gap in the research process and enhances the library’s critical role in advancing scholarly communication.”

Launched in 2010, Retraction Watch is a freely available blog, with a goal of publicizing all fraud-prompted retractions that appear in scientific literature.

Launched in 2018, Retraction Watch Database is a freely available curated, searchable database of thousands of retractions.

Information about using and searching the database.

Example of a Primo search result that is a retracted article.

Example of a BrowZine search result that is a retracted article.

Example of a Web of Science search result that is a retracted article.