This project will bring together diverse stakeholders in the academic publishing ecosystem to interact, react, and reflect in real-time on the problems created by the continued citation of retracted research and, more importantly, on possible solutions. Online attendees will include researchers, journal editors, research integrity officers, librarians, science writers, and other members of the academic publishing ecosystem. Enhanced collaboration among this diverse groups will address the challenges faced and will develop a series of research-informed outcomes (scientific workshops, policies, and industry tools) designed to improve the scientific publishing industry’s ability to manage the status of retracted scientific papers and reduce the citation and reuse of retracted publications in scientific publishing.

Project Team

• Dr. Jodi Schneider (PI), Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. jodi@illinois.edu
• Dr. Nathan Woods contributes to all stages of the literature review and citation analysis, assists the PI in conducting interviews, and leads the qualitative analysis of all materials. nathanw6@illinois.edu
• Project Manager, M.T. Campbell provides logistical and administrative support, and manages communication with stakeholders via email and the project website. mtc@illinois.edu
• Dr. Yuanxi Fu contributes to the literature review.
• Tzu-Kun ‘Esther’ Hsiao leads the citation analysis.
• Randi Proescholdt leads the search update process for the literature review and has analyzed retraction data quality in several databases.
• Yoss Arianlou (undergraduate researcher) contributes to the literature review and is helping at the workshop.
• Vivien Yip (undergraduate researcher) contributes to the literature review.
• Halle Burns is helping at the workshop.

Advisory Board

• Daniele Fanelli, PhD, Fellow in Quantitative Methodology, Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Annette Flanagin, RN, MA, FAAN, Executive Managing Editor and Vice President, Editorial Operations, JAMA and The JAMA Network, and Executive Editor, JAMAevidence
• C.K. Gunsalus, J.D., Director, National Center for Professional & Research Ethics, Professor Emerita of Business, and Research Professor at the Coordinated Sciences Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Ivan Oransky, MD. Co-Founder of Retraction Watch & Editor in Chief of Spectrum, Distinguished Writer In Residence at New York University’s Carter Journalism Institute, and president of the Association of Health Care Journalists.