Happy sixth anniversary, Retraction Watch! Here’s to a new partnership with Science

August 3rd has rolled around again, which means it’s time to celebrate another Retraction Watch anniversary — this time, our sixth.

It’s been an exciting year. Some highlights:

• The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust awarded our parent non-profit organization, The Center For Scientific Integrity, a $130,000 grant to chart a course for sustainability.
• We welcomed two new staffers, researcher Alison Abritis and staff writer Dalmeet Singh Chawla.
• We began work on a comprehensive retraction database, partnering with the Center For Open Science, thanks to the generous support of the MacArthur and Arnold Foundations.
• We launched a new leaderboard, of the 10 top-cited retracted papers.
• Our work was profiled by CBC’s The National.
• We began writing a weekly column for STAT, The Watchdogs.
• We published our 3,000th post.
• We launched The Retraction Watch Daily, a digest of our posts from the previous day, and a sneak peek at some of our Weekend Reads. (You haven’t signed up yet? Click here, we’ll wait.)

And here’s something new: We are pleased to announce a new partnership with Science, through which we will regularly contribute more in-depth investigations and analyses to their news section. It’s a great opportunity for us to dive deeper into complex stories, investigate larger issues in science integrity, and reach a larger audience. We’ve already got some great stories in the works, so stay tuned.

Your readership, criticism, and tips are anniversary gifts enough, but we would be remiss if we didn’t note that donations to The Center For Scientific Integrity are tax-deductible. Should you feel so moved, we would be deeply grateful for any and all contributions to help us continue our work. Click here to do that.

Thanks, as always, for making this all possible.

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