Exclusive: the papers that most heavily cite retracted studies https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02719-5 “We are just observing that in some bibliographies, the references have been #retracted or withdrawn, meaning that the paper may be unreliable,” Cabanac says. He calls his tool a #FeetofClay Detector, referring to an analogy, originally from the Bible, about statues or edifices that collapse because of their weak clay foundations.”
“Some of the papers that cite high proportions of retracted work are authored by known academic fraudsters who have had many of their own papers retracted.”