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Kate Travis

Washington, D.C., United States

Managing Editor at Retraction Watch

Science journalist, editor, product thinker. Managing editor at Retraction Watch. Signal: katetravis.05 - see also https://t.co/Js0lWD2jDA

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  • When PubMed got it right, Elsevier got it wrong, and Retraction Watch helped clear it up

    1 week ago | retractionwatch.com | Kate Travis

    More than 20 years after publishing a letter saying a set of papers should be retracted — and PubMed marking them as such — the journal has finally retracted the articles, following a Retraction Watch inquiry. Let’s back up. In 1998, the journal Contraception published a supplement with six articles on Implanon, a subdermal contraceptive implant. The papers examined the implant’s pharmacodynamics and side effects.

  • Apparent NCI director candidate wants ‘open, respectful’ post-publication peer review while promoting anonymous site that calls sleuths a ‘mob’

    2 weeks ago | retractionwatch.com | Kate Travis

    Brown University physician-scientist Wafik El-Deiry has been a longtime critic of the post-publication forum PubPeer, where 75 of his papers have been flagged.

  • 10 years after the downfall of a same-sex marriage canvassing study, tenure, some better practices - and an engagement

    3 weeks ago | retractionwatch.com | Kate Travis

    “Gay Advocates Can Shift Same-Sex Marriage Views,” read the New York Times headline. “Doorstep visits change attitudes on gay marriage,” declared the Los Angeles Times. “Cure Homophobia With This One Weird Trick!” Slate spouted. Driving those headlines was a December 2014 study in Science, by Michael J. LaCour, then a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Donald Green, a professor at Columbia University.

  • Fourth retraction for Italian scientist comes 11 years after sleuths flagged paper

    3 weeks ago | retractionwatch.com | Kate Travis

    PLOS One has retracted a 2011 paper first flagged for image issues 11 years ago. The retraction marks the fourth for the paper’s lead author, Gabriella Marfè of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli,” in Caserta, Italy. “Involvement of FOXO Transcription Factors, TRAIL-FasL/Fas, and Sirtuin Proteins Family in Canine Coronavirus Type II-Induced Apoptosis,” has been cited 41 times, according to Clarivate’s Web of Science.

  • IQ study retracted in fallout from decades-old misconduct report

    1 month ago | retractionwatch.com | Kate Travis

    The authors of a paper on how motivation influences  intelligence test scores have retracted their paper following the retraction of a 50-year-old study included in their analysis. Part meta-analysis and part longitudinal study, “Role of test motivation in intelligence testing” appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

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Kate Travis
Kate Travis @Kate_Travis
6 Jun 25

The fakery behind a study on canvassing to change minds about gay marriage came to light 10 years ago thanks to two then-graduate students. I caught up with them to see what has -- and hasn't -- changed in the last decade. My latest for @RetractionWatch https://t.co/sNWRNkvXTK https://t.co/KE7sRHQEdA

Kate Travis
Kate Travis @Kate_Travis
19 Mar 25

RT @RetractionWatch: Why do nearly 45,000 scholarly papers cite themselves? @DalmeetS finds out https://t.co/1ICxqMJBow

Kate Travis
Kate Travis @Kate_Travis
17 Jan 25

Today's moment of joy came from @AveryOrrall 's original headline for this story, which sadly did not make the cut: Mistake-fin identity: Correction issued for paper that confused shark species 🦈🤣 https://t.co/sV4nTzysdb