China Tells Colleges to Look Into Retractions of Academic Papers

The Ministry of Education has asked the nation’s colleges and universities to look into the retractions of academic papers by their researchers, as Chinese scholars produced three-quarters of the highest-ranking scientific papers pulled by journal publishers last year.

The ministry also asked institutions of higher education to verify the reasons for the retractions and severely punish academic misconduct, according to recent notices published by universities including Suzhou University, Inner Mongolia Normal University and Heilongjiang University of Science and Technology.