The 3,000+ journals in the Springer Nature portfolio published over 482,000 articles in 2024, according to data published this week on a new research integrity page on the company’s website. The page also shares a data point you don’t typically get from publishers: 2,923 articles were retracted.
Among the Springer Nature retractions in the Retraction Watch Database, Environmental Science and Pollution Research tops list. It was reported in August that the journal, which lost its impact factor in June, was cleaning up hundreds of papers for "suspicious citations, tortured phrases and undisclosed use of AI in the journal’s articles".
Also high on the list: Scientific Reports, which has made headlines here for a retraction on an article full of tortured phrases and others for concerns over paid authorship; and Applied Nanoscience, which retracted 34 papers in special guest-edited issues riddled with problems.
More: https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/17/springer-nature-journal-retractions-2024/
