Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Retractions are a sign that science is working as it should. But ...

Many universities and research institutions around the world prize high productivity. They encourage researchers to publish more articles and accrue more citations; higher counts can signal that an ...

(Editor's note: This story has been updated to include comment from Nemours Children's Health and reflect where the retracted articles were originally published.) A former researcher at Nemours ...